Лощена червоноглиняна бутоноподібна люлька

Description

A burnished red-clay bud-shaped pipe with a spherical lower part of the bowl. Made in two parts, with clear traces of the seam where the mould halves joined. The neck of the bowl has not survived. The surface is decorated with roulette impressions where the stem socket joins the bowl, at the transition of the long part of the socket into the sleeve and then into the flare, and at the transition of the bowl body into the neck. Dated to the late 17th to 18th century. Type II in O. Kovalenko's typology. Scientific description by Yaroslav Chentsov.