A GENTLEMAN'S COLLECTION OF EIGHT MEERSCHAUM PIPES Possibly Vienna, Austria and Istanbul, Ottoman Turkey, second half 19th centuryA GENTLEMAN'S COLLECTION OF EIGHT MEERSCHAUM PIPESPossibly Vienna, Austria and Istanbul, Ottoman Turkey, second half 19th century The pipes coming in a variety of shapes, six of them with fitted cases, two loose, each one independently worked with striking features including two pipes carved with female faces; one with a bearded man; one faceted and carved in the shape of a tower, featuring white metal mounts and nielloed silver fitting on the mouth piece; two smaller pipes carved with zoomorphic motifs, specifically a lion and a horse; another with deep cylindrical tobacco chamber and beaded frieze at the top; and the last one delicately carved with a nest of doves feeding their little ones; most of them with carved amber mouth pieces, all housed inside a tooled and gilt green morocco leather box, the largest pipe 14.5cm long outside the case, the box 8.5cm x 31.5cm x 14cm. Dimensions the largest pipe 14.5cm long outside the case; the box 8.5cm x 31.5cm x 14cm