Rinaldo: Triade Billiard with Silver (2) (Y) Tobacco Pipe

A stout, muscular rendition of the shape-chart standard, this Billiard from Rinaldo boasts a tall, upright bowl that fills wrapping fingers with substance and girth. The bowl houses a respectable chamber within its thick insulating walls, and it rises proudly at the fore of an arrow-straight shank-and-stem arrangement. In typical neoclassical fashion, the bowl holds most of the visual weight within the composition, overshadowing the comparatively slender shank and stem out back. The striking Triade smooth finish dresses the stummel and highlights tight wisps of flame grain across the flanks of the bowl, while a sterling silver accent graces the junction and provides a dose of flash to the pipe in profile.