Museum number:

APM 15.585

Subcollection:

opium pipes

Title:

opium pipe

Keyword:

ivory button with mouse

Description:

Opium pipe made of bamboo with a straight tube shape, painted with an imitation tortoise decor. Finger button of ivory with crescent shape on which a carved mouse between the grass. Saddle of pakton (Chinese silver) with rectangular shape on which a checked pane carries the weighted cuff for the damper. Stem end pakton straps and ivory disc shaped caps.

Date:

Period 1880 - 1920


Dimensions:

GeneralLength23.82 in (60.5 cm)
Diameter1.02 in (2.6 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape tubular
Materialbamboo (wood)
Techniquepainted
Colourbrown
Other materialspaktong (metal), ivory (animal material)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAsia
Region internationalEast Asia
CountryChina
Acquisition
Year 1999
Provenance Hertsberge, collectie Hugo Perquy, c. 1985-1999
Parijs, antiekhandel, c. 1985
Comments
De muis is een zogenaamde doormouse (shrew) of bergrat.
Literature
Don Duco, Opium & opiumschuiven, een bronnenboek. Amsterdam, 2006. p 125, foto 76. Dit exemplaar. Idem, p 145, afb 102. Pommel.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, opiumvitrine, 1999-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, opiumvitrine, v.a. 2013.

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