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AN IVORY, BAMBOO AND vaporization and inhalation of 14
SILVER OPIUM PIPE, QING opium. The lamp is crafted from AN IVORY, YIXING, PEWTER AND LACQUERED
DYNASTY, WITH AN ANTIQUE brass with several openwork WOOD OPIUM PIPE, QING DYNASTY
OPIUM LAMP sections and its distinctive chimney The pipe consisting of a main section made of lacquered
The pipe consisting of one single is made from glass. wood, with connecting pieces made of pewter, a silver
bamboo section, with both sealings Opium lamps differ from ring with raised enamel decoration, the mouth piece and
carved of ivory, each resting on conventional lamps for lighting in finial carved of ivory
a dark horn platelet, the saddle that they are designed to channel China, 19 century
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of repoussé silver showing neatly an exact amount of heat upward
incised designs through their funnel-shaped The finial is carved in the shape of hand holding the
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China, 18 – 19 century chimneys. An opium pipe, its pipe- pipe-bowl, which is made of pewter with a copper inset,
bowl primed with a small dose of and a Yixing ceramic top with a meander border and a
12 The saddle depicting several bats opium known as a “pill,” was held band with an inscription. The bottom of the hand shows
AN INSCRIBED STAG ANTLER, PEWTER AND YIXING OPIUM PIPE, QING in high and low relief, flowers, an over the opium lamp causing the a neatly incised ying yang symbol. The carving of the
DYNASTY inlaid rock crystal cabochon in the opium to vaporize and allowing the hand with its detailed fingernails shows a high level of
The pipe consisting of five carved antler sections, each showing neatly incised center, all surrounded by various smoker to inhale the vapors. These both technical and artistic skills. The Yixing pipe-bowl top
designs, the pewter section with repoussé décor in high relief dotted borders, executed again lamps were crafted mainly in China bears the nine-character inscription “Yanyun Shedong
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China, 19 century in high and low relief. Holding a before the communist revolution (the name of the village, where this pipe was made)
metal pipe-bowl. in 1949 brought opium smoking Qingshi Shi (the name of the maker’s family) Jianzhi
Depiction of eight Daoist immortals surrounded by clouds, rockwork and This pipe is an unusual example of to an abrupt halt there. Due to (supervised making)”
flowers as well as several auspicious objects. The pewter saddle decorated a collaboration between a bamboo opium eradication campaigns in
with further auspicious objects surrounded by clouds, showing a five-character carver and a silversmith. The end the nineteenth and early twentieth Shape: Pipe
seal script inscription on each side, and holding an Yixing pipe-bowl designed of the pipe is made of ivory, while centuries, antique opium lamps are Dimensions: 45 cm (length)
in the shape of abstracted chrysanthemum blossom surrounded by a stylized the working part of the opium pipe now considered as rare. Condition: Good condition with minuscule hair line to
chrysanthemum-petal-border. is made of a silver alloy. Pipes of mouth piece and some tiny abrasions to wood, very good
Inscription: “When you inhale opium smoke through your mouth, you sense this type were commonly carved Shape: Opium lamp old patina
the real feeling, this opium is really an absolute enjoyment” from bamboo, mostly fashioned for Dimensions: 14 cm (height) Provenance: Austrian private collection
members of the gentry. Condition: Very good condition
Shape: Pipe with some wear, the glass with 㶭ẋ尉䈁㛐㝬沱䇯䂇㥵
Dimensions: 48 cm (length) Shape: Pipe chipping to upper opening ⑩䚠列⤥炻䂇◜悐ỵ㚱塪䷓炻㛐岒悐↮㚱䢐㎵炻⊭㻧
Condition: Good condition with top sealing missing, one age crack to antler, Dimensions: 59 cm (length) Provenance: Austrian private ⤏⛘⇑䥩Ṣ㓞啷
minor damage and missing parts to bottom of section four, old wear and Condition: Very good condition collection
traces of use, the pewter with some deflections with some wear, the silver with Estimate EUR 200,-
Provenance: Austrian private collection minor denting Literature comparison: Steven Starting price EUR 100,-
Provenance: Austrian private Martin, The Art of Opium Antiques
㶭ẋ渧奺搚拓⭄冰沱䇯䂇㥵 collection (Silkworm Books, 2007).
⑩䚠列⤥炻枪悐怢⣙炻渧奺⚈䇚⸜ẋḦ塪炻庽⽖䢐㎵炻䫔⚃䭨⸽悐仢⮹悐
↮炻⯙䢐㎵␴ἧ䓐䕽嶉炻拓悐㚱ṃ嬲⼊ġ Literature comparison: ASIAN ART. 㶭ẋ䪡岒尉䈁◜搚戨沱䇯䂇㥵炻
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⤏⛘⇑䥩Ṣ㓞啷 Bonham’s, London, November 9 , 旬䄁䅰
2015, lot 260. (for a related pipe) ⑩䚠㤝⤥炻㚱ᶨṃ䢐㎵炻戨䘬悐
Estimate EUR 200,- ↮㚱ṃ↡星
Starting price EUR 100,- The pipe comes together with ⤏⛘⇑䥩Ṣ㓞啷
an antique Asian opium lamp,
which is an oil lamp designed Estimate EUR 200,-
specifically to facilitate the Starting price EUR 100,-

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