Museum number:

APM 15.586

Subcollection:

opium pipes

Title:

opium damper

Keyword:

walking lion, branches

Description:

Opium pipe made of porcelain with baluster vase shape damper with wide neck with edge as cuff and lenticular bottom. Vase on the side pierced for the bowl. Painted on light blue background in multicolour on both sides a yellow lion walking between green branches with leaves and red with white flower buds, heightened with gloss gold. Vase edge light yellow fond with golden twig, gloss gold opening. Original blackened wooden stem with turned rings in which two rosette-shaped discs and at the mouthpiece thin discs interspersed with a knot, mouthpiece teat-shaped.

Date:

Period 1890 - 1920


Dimensions:

BowlHeight2.24 in (5.7 cm)
Width2.24 in (5.7 cm)
StemLength0.39 in (1 cm)
Length total10.04 in (25.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape baluster
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniquethrown (potters' wheel)
Colourwhite
Other materialswood
Oher techniquesturned (on a lathe)
Other coloursbrown black
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentAsia
Region internationalWestern Asia
CountryIran
Acquisition
Year 1999
Provenance Hertsberge, collectie Hugo Perquy, c. 1989-1999
Rome, antiekhandel, c. 1989
Literature
Don Duco, Opium & opiumschuiven, een bronnenboek. Amsterdam, 2006. p 121, foto 68. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, opiumvitrine, 1999=2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, opiumvitrine, v.a. 2013.

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