![White Clay Native American Tobacco Pipe: Similar one in display at the Smithsonian American History Museum in New York, Measures 5 x 2 x 1 inches.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5173/333476/180070141_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718394479)
Clay Tobacco Smoking Pipes
![White Clay Native American Tobacco Pipe: Similar one in display at the Smithsonian American History Museum in New York, Measures 5 x 2 x 1 inches.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5173/333476/180070141_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718394479)
![Collection of 19th? Century Smoking Pipes: Collection of 19th? century clay tobacco smoking pipes in wood frame. 11 pieces total in various sizes and shapes. All have been velcroed to fabric backing. Photos are considered part of the condition](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/7437/333103/179859603_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718231212)
![Pair of West African tobacco pipes with terracotta bowl, probably 19th century: Pair of West African tobacco pipes with terracotta bowl, probably 19th centuryPair of tobacco pipes from West Africa, probably Ghana. Pipe bowl made of red-brown fired clay or terracotta. These partia](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/7607/332235/179217519_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717438144)
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![Toshiko Takaezu turned clay into poetry](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Purple-Moon.jpg)
Toshiko Takaezu turned clay into poetry
NEW YORK – A handful of artists have taken the material of clay to new heights. One of the most celebrated is Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011), whose ceramics are prized for their artistic skill and complex execution as well as their poetic surfaces. Born in Hawaii, she worked in several mediums during her five-decade career, from […]
![Israeli scientists brew beer in clay vessels with revived ancient yeasts](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/featured-1-5.jpg)
Israeli scientists brew beer in clay vessels with revived ancient yeasts
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli researchers raised a glass Wednesday to celebrate a long-brewing project of making beer and mead using yeasts extracted from ancient clay vessels — some over 5,000 years old.
![Mark Catesby’s Heath Hen and Eastern Shooting Star Hand-colored Engraving leads our five auction highlights](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Trillium-Antique-Prints-and-Rare-Books-April-6-Mark-Catesby.jpeg)
Mark Catesby’s Heath Hen and Eastern Shooting Star Hand-colored Engraving leads our five auction highlights
Mark Catesby, Heath Hen and Eastern Shooting Star Hand-colored Engraving, $5,555 FRANKLIN, TN – Mark Catesby (1683-1749) was born in England, but after traveling to South Carolina, he became America’s first naturalist and illustrator. A century before Audubon, he published the seminal Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: Containing the Figures of […]
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Gio Ponti Triennale Armchairs lead our five auction highlights
Gio Ponti Triennale Armchairs, $117,900 CHICAGO – Among the starring lots at the Wright Design sale on March 28 was this pair of Gio Ponti lacquered wood, upholstery, and brass Triennale armchairs dating to 1951. The design is one produced for ISA (Industria Salotti e Arredamenti), the luxury furniture firm. To achieve the effect of […]