Museum number:

APM 15.569

Subcollection:

opium pipes

Title:

opium pipe bowl

Keyword:

carp, signature

Description:

Opium damper made of stoneware with flat cylindrical bowl, slightly curved upper side, wide vertical outer edge and slightly curved underside with stub. Top incised and filled in with gray-white stoneware on the right a carp, under leaf motifs and left above three Chinese characters, a second carp in brown-gray left below, surface polished with high-gloss. Damper underside two groups with stamped Chinese character marks. Bowl holder with stem of brass.

Date:

Period 1860 - 1900


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight1.89 in (4.8 cm)
Diameter2.87 in (7.3 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape round
Materialstoneware, yixing (ceramic)
Techniquethrown (potters' wheel)
Colourred-brown
Other materialsbrass (metal)
Finish steengoed, grijswit
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAsia
Region internationalEast Asia
CountryChina
Mark Chinese karakters (stempels, ketel onderzijde)
Acquisition
Year 1999
Provenance Amsterdam, Rob Clarke
China, provincie Hunan, antiekhandel, 1999
Literature
Don Duco, Opium & opiumschuiven, een bronnenboek. Amsterdam, 2006. p 162, foto 144. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, opiumvitrine, 1999-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, opiumvitrine, v.a. 2013.

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