"19th Century Indian Yellow Copper Pipe Finely Ornamented With Elephant Head And Implications"
Rare and amusing Indian pipe with a long curved mouthpiece with a bowl of an amusing caricatured elephant head in yellow copper, raised trunk, with its hat and decorated with ornaments: earrings, pendant at the end of the trunk, the fine pipe of this curiosity piece decorated with motifs in application of ornaments typical of this know-how so mastered by the Indians, it is from the first part of the 20th century and came back to us in luggage as a souvenir. A beautiful object in good condition and very light, very decorative and original...