Museum number:

APM 15.057

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

Chinese water pipe

Description:

Water pipe made of pakton (Chinese silver) consisting of a rectangular box in which a pipe with ascending curved stem and rectangular water reservoir and a rectangular tobacco box with valve cover, between both two holders with facetted top edge in which a needle with a brush and tweezers, between the tools a scalloped plate with an eye to which a chain with cap for the stem and green cord with clothes hook and tassel. Yellow-toothed pakton, the box lined with green shark skin.

Date:

Period 1850 - 1900


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight9.45 in (24 cm)
Width3.31 in (8.4 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape cylindrical
Materialpaktong (metal)
Techniquecast metal
Colouryellow, green
Other materialsshagreen (animal material)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAsia
Region internationalEast Asia
CountryChina
Acquisition
Year 1990
Provenance Knowle, veilinghuis Phillips Midlands, 1990
Bramber, collectie Anthony Irving, House of Pipes, <1970-1989
Comments
Vgl. APM 22.259 soortgelijke waterpijp.Stichting Pijpenkabinet, ansichtkaart, 1998.
Literature
Georges F. Vandalis, Water Pipes. Athens, 2000. t.o. p 90. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, Opium & opiumschuiven, een bronnenboek. Amsterdam, 2006. p 119, foto 63. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, tentoonstelling "Roken op z'n Chinees", 7 november - 24 december 1993.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, overloop, vitrine Azië, v.a. 2001.

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