Museum number:

APM 14.739

Subcollection:

opium pipes

Title:

opium pipe bowl

Keyword:

seated Buddha

Description:

Opium pipe damper made of stoneware with figural shape placed on cuff with a brass holder with short straight stem. Damper a sitting Buddha with prayer cord in the right hand, the bowl lined with copper in the belly of the person. Bowl rear three groups of stamped Chinese characters, two in rectangular frame. Mould in two parts.

Date:

Period 1850 - 1920


Dimensions:

BowlHeight2.2 in (5.6 cm)
Width2.01 in (5.1 cm)
StemLength0.79 in (2 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialstoneware, yixing (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourgray
Other materialscopper (metal)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAsia
Region internationalEast Asia
CountryChina
Mark Chinese karakters (stempel, ketel)
Acquisition
Year 1997
Provenance Amsterdam, Rob Clarke
China, Yunnan (zuidwesten), 1997
Literature
Don Duco, De attributen van de opiumschuiver. Amsterdam, 1997. afb 12. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, Opium & opiumschuiven, een bronnenboek. Amsterdam, 2006. p 169, afb 162. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, opiumvitrine, 1999-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, opiumvitrine, v.a. 2013.

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