Museum number:

APM 15.777

Subcollection:

opium pipes

Title:

opium pipe bowl

Keyword:

landscape with man with buffalo

Description:

Opium damper made of stoneware with round disc shape damper with cuff band. Bowl top a medallion in cream with painting in black of a landscape in which a man with a buffalo wades through the river, bamboo bush on the right, above the mountains a group of Chinese characters. Bowl bottom four groups with stamped marks of Chinese characters. Mounting with silver bowl holder and stem with three groups of stamped silver marks of Chinese characters.

Date:

Period 1870 - 1900


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight1.85 in (4.7 cm)
Diameter2.91 in (7.4 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape disk shape
Materialstoneware, yixing (ceramic)
Techniquethrown (potters' wheel)
Colourbrown
Other materialssilver (metal)
Finish glazuur, crème, zwart
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAsia
Region internationalEast Asia
CountryChina
Mark Chinese karakters (stempels, ketel onderzijde)
Acquisition
Year 2000
Provenance Amsterdam, Rob Clarke
China, provincie Hunan, antiekhandel, 1999
Literature
Don Duco, Opium & opiumschuiven, een bronnenboek. Amsterdam, 2006. p 160, foto 135. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, Keramische hoogstandjes voor opiumschuivers. AmsterdamTribale kunst, 9/4, 2021. p 30, foto 3. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, opiumvitrine, 2000-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, opiumvitrine, v.a. 2013.

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