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:

GeneralHeight7.87 in (20 cm)
Diameter3.54 in (9 cm)
StemLength1.97 in (5 cm)
Length total46.85 in (119 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type tobacco pipe
Pipe shape cylindrical
Materialcopper (metal)
Techniqueengraved
Colourbrown
Other materialssilver (metal)
Finish inlegwerk
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAsia
Region internationalEast Asia
CountryChina
Acquisition
Year 1999
Provenance Hertsberge, collectie Hugo Perquy, 1991-1999
Parijs, antiekhandel, 1991
Literature
Georges F. Vandalis, Water Pipes. Athens, 2000. t.o. p 113. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, overloop, vitrine Azië, v.a. 2001.

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