Rusticated Calabash (R1) (A) Tobacco Pipe

Though this Calabash from Ser Jacopo measures fewer than five inches in total length, it's quite muscular and compressed of form. The towering, robust bowl displays an overhanging, domed cap that's wrapped in a pronounced, demarcating ridgeline, while the stout, upturned shank and saddle stem extend from a high-set transition, further emphasizing the pipe's hearty demeanor. The stummel is dressed in one of the Pesaro workshop's earthy, craggy rustications with a smooth, lightly stained band of briar at the shank end lending textural contrast.