Small Purple Phoenix Pipe Bowl

This is a miniature porcelain pipe bowl made by Meissen in the 1920s during the Pfeiffer period. It is hand painted with the purple phoenix design including the two intertwined birds to the front and a design to the back with a touch of gold trim. Purple signifies nobility, immortality, and divinity in Chinese culture. These small pipe bowls are hard to find and really quite neat. It has a wooden sleeve attached to the thin stem end with a silver mouth piece screwed int the end and a silver sleeve over that to protect it. A neat way to do it. It was deinfitely used at some point as there is a bit of tobacco residue on the bottom inside. The pipe is marked on the underside near that little knob with their under glaze blue crossed swords mark with the dot between the tops. The pipe is in perfect condition but the wooden sleeve has a crack in it as shown where it goes over the porcelain stem. The bowl is 1.5 inches tall from top edge to the knob part and has a top diameter of about 0.5 inches. The visible porcelain stem is about 0.75 inches longand the wooden part to end of mouth piece is about 4.625 inches long. Please email me for more information or other pictures.