Museum number:

APM 15.586

Subcollection:

opiumpijpen

Title:

opium damper

Keyword:

walking lion, branches

Description:

Opium pipe made of porcelain with baluster vase shape damper with wide neck with edge as cuff and lenticular bottom. Vase on the side pierced for the bowl. Painted on light blue background in multicolour on both sides a yellow lion walking between green branches with leaves and red with white flower buds, heightened with gloss gold. Vase edge light yellow fond with golden twig, gloss gold opening. Original blackened wooden stem with turned rings in which two rosette-shaped discs and at the mouthpiece thin discs interspersed with a knot, mouthpiece teat-shaped.

Date:

Period 1890 - 1920


Dimensions:

BowlHeight5,7 cm
Width5,7 cm
StemLength1 cm
Length total25,5 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type insteekpijp
Pipe shape baluster
Materialporselein (ceramiek)
Techniquegedraaid (pottenbakkersschijf)
Colourwit
Other materialshout
Oher techniquesgedraaid (draaibank)
Other coloursbruinzwart
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContintentAzië
Region InternationalZuidwest-Azië
CountryIran
Acquisition
Year 1999
Provenance Hertsberge, collectie Hugo Perquy, c. 1989-1999
Rome, antiekhandel, c. 1989
Literature
Don Duco, Opium & opiumschuiven, een bronnenboek. Amsterdam, 2006. p 121, foto 68. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, opiumvitrine, 1999=2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, opiumvitrine, v.a. 2013.

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