Micoli (Robert Burns) Partially Rusticated Pot Estate Briar Pipe, American Estates

Description

Of all the artisans to have come out of the first, great wave of American freehand carvers in the post-war decades, Robert “Micoli” Burns is by far one of the most unique—which is saying something, considering his close contemporaries are individuals such as Michael Kabik, Randy Wiley, and Joe Mariner. He also remains one of the most celebrated, which is equally impressive given the number of high-grade American artisans who have taken up the craft across the course of Burns’ long career.

Robert Burns’s portfolio includes extravagant freehands and more classically inclined, 20th century pipe shapes, but rarely are either without Burns’s signature, Dremel-applied rustication. This wide pot is no different, with its simple, natural finish and vulcanite stem seemingly bursting at the seams, thanks to Burns’s unique finishing. Like Anne Julie over in Denmark, Burns has even extended his rustic finishing to the pipe’s stem, continuing the wild, disruption of conventional form to its modern, flared saddle figure.

The condition is very good. Some inner rim darkening.

Details:

Length: 6.2″ / 157.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.94 / 23.87mm

Bowl Depth: 1.24″ / 31.49mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 48g