/Try this pdf on web on Marseille pipes/


pagesperso-orange.fr/philippe.gosse/Chioggia/intro.pdf

But couldn't see a ref to catalan pipes

Ref BAR S1590 2007: /The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe 19/ *The 
Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe XIX. Les pipes de la quarantaine: 
Fouilles du port antique de Pomègues (Marseille) * by Philippe Gosse . 
Edited by Peter Davey. ISBN 978 1 4073 0006 1. £50.00. vi+346; 8 colour 
plates; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans and drawings; 
Catalogue. In French with English abstract.

The collection of almost 1,000 clay pipes from the quarantine port of 
Pomègues provides a unique insight into pipe production and use 
throughout the Mediterranean and further afield. The author's exhaustive 
study makes a significant contribution to knowledge both of pipe 
production and circulation in a number of different ways. Although these 
have already been recognised and published from a range of sites 
throughout the Mediterranean basin, the Pomègues collection, arriving 
off Marseilles on ships from many ports of origin, is by far the most 
extensive and varied yet collected. This study establishes a logical 
nomenclature for the formal and technical variables that can be observed 
on these pipes. The Pomègues assemblage demonstrates clearly that a wide 
range of stylistic and constructional forms, many previously though to 
be late, coexisted over a wide geographical area. All existing dating 
typologies for Ottoman-style pipes will now have to be revised. Using 
existing published groups from specific sites and areas the author has 
attempted to identify the origins of the pipes within the Empire - 
whether from north Africa, the Near East, Asia Minor or Greece. Quite 
apart from the Ottoman-style pipes, the author provides an interesting 
study of the extensive Dutch element in the Pomègues collection. The 
pipes derive from a large number of makers and a number of probable 
centres and include a range of qualities, including possible copies. An 
attempt to combine stem-bore analysis, bowl form and maker information 
in a single dating statement for each pipe provides an original 
contribution to the study of Dutch pipes from this kind of context. The 
English pipes are fewer in number and more difficult to source with few 
distinctive regional forms or makers' marks. This study describes and 
identifies for the first time a major pipe production centre in Venice, 
producing thrown pipes in a specific technology, contrasting with the 
well-known moulded types from Chioggia. Finally, the author has defined, 
albeit tentatively, a range of 18th-century products from France and 
provides some indication of how such pipes can be identified in the 
future. This is important as very little research has been carried out 
on the products of an industry which, from the documentary sources, was 
a significant one.