Collection: Warnock
Item Number: WC8708525
Category: Pipe Bowls-Pipe Stems
Region: Northeast
Tribe: Ojibwa-Chippewa
Period: 1850-1875 - ca. 1885
Materials: Black stone; lead
Description: Base of bowl is inlaid with diamond motifs and a heart with bird figure inlaid on the raised portion above the base. Further inlaid running around the top of the bowl.
Dimensions: Length 5.5 inches 14 cm; Height 3.25 inches 8.3 cm.
Provenance:
Jay Mahoney Collection
Lessard Collection- SD 535
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.
References:
Sotheby's Auction Catalogue, Sotheby's, New York, Sale 4586Y, Lot 257, April 25, 1981
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