Catalogue Number: P053

Manufacturer: Berlin?

Date: 1841

Porcelain Marks: Base of stem: Cross line, under glaze blue.

Spur: 9.

Mounting Marks: Hallmark: London silver mark for 1841.

Maker’s mark “JT”.

Size: H= 150mm W= 38mm

Description: Stummel with ellipsoid bowl.

Three quarter length portrait of a scantily clad young lady against a purple backdrop.

Mountings of silver gilt, with matching reservoir, bearing the English hall marks:-  Leopard’s head, Lion, “f” and Queen Victoria’s head. The maker’s mark,  “JT”, probably for John Teare, is stamped on the spigot.

The reservoir unscrews for cleaning.

The pipe came with a stem of stag’s horn inlaid with mother-of-pearl and tortoise shell, total length 530 mm.