Surreal-esque Hand-stitched Seal Fur Wrapped Pipe, Presumed Inuit folk art bottle Two studies of trees

Two studies of trees

and has a great folk meets deco feel to it

black glass with gold and silver foil

Except for the loss of reigns and possibly base

Surreal-esque Hand-stitched Seal Fur Wrapped Pipe, Presumed Inuit folk art bottle Two studies of treesWhen I spotted this one, I immediately saw it as a marriage between Meret Oppenheim's fur lined tea cup and Rene Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe; a very surrealist sort of object, and to my sensibilities quite a wonderful one. But with the fur being seal fur, I would presume it is in fact Inuit Alaskan Eskimo, and would guess the function of the fur was to make it easier to hold and pack the pipe in the cold, and also to make it personal to the