Museum number:

APM 1.229

Subcollection:

opium pipes

Title:

opium pipe

Keyword:

buffalo horn, ivory stem ends

Description:

Opium pipe made of black buffalo horn with tube shape consisting of five segments of turned horn with concentric rings, stem ends silver rings with relief coloured with enamel, ivory end piece and mouthpiece. Silver saddle with holder for the pipe bowl, the saddle the shape of a stylized musical instrument with an engraved series of strings, along the base two horizontal ornament edges and two legs on which stylized animals, the bowl holder undecorated. Stem end engraved "LA PERLE NOIRE" (the black pearl).

Date:

Period 1870 - 1900


Dimensions:

GeneralLength19.69 in (50 cm)
Diameter1.14 in (2.9 cm)
Weight413 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape tubular
Materialbuffalo horn (animal material)
Techniquethrown (potters' wheel)
Colourbrown black
Other materialsivory (animal material), silver (metal)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAsia
Region internationalEast Asia
CountryChina
Acquisition
Year 2003
Provenance Amsterdam, collectie Ferry Bertholet, 1998-2003
Cannes, particulier bezit, <1990-1998
Comments
Vgl. APM 1.229bis opiumketel.
Literature
Don Duco, Opium & opiumschuiven, een bronnenboek. Amsterdam, 2006. p 130, foto 84. Dit exemplaar. Idem, p 140, afb 92.

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