Museum number:
APM 15.681 |
Subcollection:
ethnographic pipes |
Title:
water pipe |
Keyword:
floral scene with birds, rows of characters |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of copper and silver with high cylinder shape made according to a bamboo example, the outside copper with silver bands around base and middle, the upper side half a screen shape with contoured outer line. Exterior the copper engraved with inlay of silver and copper of branch with leaves and flowers and group with four rows of Chinese characters. With carrier eye and applique of silver for cleaner both with whimsical shapes. Pipe cleaner in silver with silver chain. Inner bowl with stem and bevel-shaped bottom of brass. Original long curved bamboo stem with 43 knots and silver tip. |
Date:
Period | 1870 - 1910 |
Dimensions:
General | Height | 7.87 in (20 cm) |
Diameter | 3.54 in (9 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 1.97 in (5 cm) |
Length total | 46.85 in (119 cm) |
Pipe type | tobacco pipe |
Pipe shape | cylindrical |
Material | copper (metal) |
Technique | engraved |
Colour | brown |
Other materials | silver (metal) |
Finish | inlegwerk |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Continent | Asia |
Region international | East Asia |
Country | China |
Year | 1999 |
Provenance | Hertsberge, collectie Hugo Perquy, 1991-1999 |
Parijs, antiekhandel, 1991 |
Georges F. Vandalis (Georges E. Vandalis), Water Pipes. Athens, 2000. t.o. p 113. Dit exemplaar. |
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, overloop, vitrine Azië, v.a. 2001. |
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