Viking & Norse Meerschaum Pipes
Bearded warriors and Norse subjects, carved in high relief. Portrait work of this kind lives or dies on the beard and the eyes — the two places where hand carving separates itself completely from anything moulded.
12 pieces
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Viking No. 1
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Viking No. 2
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Viking No. 3
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Viking No. 4
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Viking No. 5
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Viking No. 6
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Viking No. 7
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Viking No. 8
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Viking No. 9
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Viking No. 10
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Viking No. 11
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Viking No. 12
Price on requestAbout the Viking collection
Viking and Norse subjects are among the most demanding portrait work the atelier does, because a great deal of the piece is hair. Beard and braid work has to be cut deeply enough to throw real shadow, and it has to keep its direction and rhythm as it travels around the form.
The eyes are the other test. A carved eye at this scale is a matter of a fraction of a millimetre, and it decides whether the face reads as a person or as a pattern. It is worth zooming into the full-screen photographs on any portrait piece to look specifically at those two areas.
Every piece is one of a kind, carved by hand in Eskişehir and photographed unretouched from all sides.
Common questions
- What should I look at to judge a portrait carving?
- The eyes and the hair. Both are checkable in the full-screen view on each product page, and both are where hurried carving shows first.