Md. Angga Rusticated Calabash w/ Cumberland Handmade Briar Pipe, New

Description

As with other forms of art and craft, pipe making has a curious tendency to “run in the family.” Denmark, of course, is famous for its pipe making dynasties, such as the successive generations of Ivarsson, Chonowitsch, and Balleby pipes. The same holds for the Morel family in France and the Blatter family in Canada. There are also instances where siblings make pipes together, such as in the cases of Blatter Bros and Vollmer & Nilsson. And there are also examples where two or more siblings from the same family will make pipes individually, as Sven Knudsen and Teddy Knudsen did before and after their brief Dantonian partnership.

This latter example is most apt to describe two brothers from Indonesia with seemingly genetic talents for pipe making: Wandi Riyadi and Md. Angga. While Angga has learned plenty from his brother Riyadi over the years, he’s also managed to step out of his brother’s increasingly large shadow and to carve his own path.
Defining this pipe from Md. Angga is no easy task and to call it “distinctive” would be an understatement. It brings together common themes in Angga’s work, such as his wave-like rustication, though this time with a far greater depth and relief, as well as his proclivity for creating idiosyncratic combinations of elements from more familiar shapes. The rustication this time, however, has also been paired with hand carvings evocative of traditional Indonesian ceramics on its rim. This works great with the pipe’s shaping, which leans toward classic briar calabash shapes, before transitioning into something much more like a Scandi-American volcano in the downward progression of the bowl.

 

Details:

Length: 4.5″ / 114.3mm

Bowl Width: 0.75 / 19.05mm

Bowl Depth: 1.49″ / 37.84mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 42g