Lorenzo Ventetresa Smooth Bent Sitter Egg 7102, mid-to

This reference example is a bent egg from the Italian house of Lorenzo, catalogued within the Ventetresa line under shape number 7102. The pipe is finished smooth, allowing the natural surface of the stummel to read without carving or texture, and it is executed as a sitter — the underside of the bowl flattened so the pipe stands upright on its own base, a practical variant that Italian factories frequently applied to classic shapes. The airway accepts a 9mm filter, the disc-filter system standard across much of Continental European pipe production, in which a replaceable charcoal or paper element seats inside an enlarged tenon-and-mortise junction between shank and stem. The egg is one of the traditional chart shapes of pipe making: an ovoid bowl, fuller at the base and tapering gently toward the rim, most often paired with a bent stem that carries the profile in a continuous flowing line. In sitter form the egg gains a small planted foot while retaining its rounded silhouette above. Lorenzo was among the larger Italian production makers of the twentieth century, part of the northern Italian pipe-making tradition centred around Lombardy, and its output — issued in named series with numbered shapes — circulated widely across Europe as accessible, factory-made work. The Ventetresa designation identifies the series within that catalogue structure, with 7102 fixing the shape. Dating rests on the line name and shape number recorded for the piece rather than on any factory date code, since Lorenzo, like most Italian production houses, did not stamp its pipes with year marks. The identification places the pipe within the firm's active production period, and the honest bracket is therefore the mid-to-late twentieth century, with no narrower year attainable from the markings alone. As an estate example it documents the filtered, series-numbered Italian factory pipe as a distinct category within the broader European trade.