Opium dampers

9 December 2021

This month the magazine Tribale Kunst (Tribal Art) published a richly illustrated article about opium pipe bowls, also referred to as dampers. Based on our extensive collection of stoneware pipe bowls our curator shows an overview of these interesting ceramic objects. Although the shape is rather standard, the decorations in different colours of clay are very creative. They range from subtle bamboo twigs to elaborate poems in fine Chinese characters

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