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:
Bowl | Height | 2.24 in (5.7 cm) |
Width | 2.24 in (5.7 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 0.39 in (1 cm) |
Length total | 10.04 in (25.5 cm) |
Characteristics
Pipe type | insert pipe |
Pipe shape | baluster |
Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
Technique | thrown (potters' wheel) |
Colour | white |
Other materials | wood |
Oher techniques | turned (on a lathe) |
Other colours | brown black |
Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren |
Traces of use | ongerookt |
Production
Continent | Asia |
Region international | Western Asia |
Country | Iran |
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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