Bari Wiking XL Partially Rusticated Freehand Estate Briar Pipe, Danish Estates

Description

Bari was a pipe company founded in Kolding, Denmark, in 1950. Along with Stanwell, Bari was one of the first companies that started the Danish movement in pipe-making, offering innovative designs and propelling its founders and carvers into celebrity status within the pipe world. Bari’s founder was Viggo Nielsen, whose sons Kai Nielsen and Jørgen Nielsen joined him in working at Bari, along with other soon-to-be famous names such as Åge Bogelund. Though the Bari company is long gone, its legacy lives on in the artisan pipe scene as it exists today.

Bari and the Nielsen family holds  special place in Danish pipe history, being pioneers not only of the kinds of Danish pipe design associated with Sixten Ivarsson and his successors, but also with the “Danish fancy” freehand genre, alongside Erik Nording, Preben Holm, and others. This extra large, almost magnum sized freehand belongs to the latter category, blending fine, straight grain with patches of spot carved rustication, a tremendously broad plateaux burl rim, and a slight wave-like furl at its shank end that even pre-figures certain Japanese shaping styles.

The condition is great. Some rim darkening, but not significantly noticeable.

Details:

Length: 7″ / 177.8mm

Bowl Width: 1.17 / 29.71mm

Bowl Depth: 1.99″ / 50.54mm

Weight: 3.5oz / 102g