Kent Rasmussen Elephant's Foot with Mazurbirch (Two Star) Tobacco Pipe

Bold, clean and concise, Kent Rasmussen' work is unsurpassed in architectural pipe shaping. As with almost all of Kent's work, this elephant's foot draws the eye to the edge of the composition and has it race along the perimeters before taking in the pipe as a whole. Once the eye can pry itself from the edge, one starts to take in shape as a whole, and what a shape this is. The dramatic front panel of this pipe features birdseye that approaches the supernatural in its density and regularity. Smaller, but not to be outdone in beauty, the rear panel sets up in opposition, and it is within this interplay that incredible things happen. The undulating side panels provide the two principles with both an intersecting plane (genesis of that hallmark Kent edge) as well as a spectacular cross cut grained bond between the siblings.

--Bear Graves