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1906.10.3

Bamboo pipe with brass mount and brown pottery bowl.

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1906.10.3

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Collection type
Object
Description
Bamboo pipe with brass mount and brown pottery bowl.
Geographical reference
China
Asia > Eastern Asia > China
Person
Field collector Henry Nottidge Moseley
PRM source Amabel Nevill Sollas
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1891
Date collected
By 1891
Acquisition information
Donated: 01/1906
Materials and processes
Material Bamboo Plant, Material Brass Metal, Material Pottery
Dimensions
Length: max 450 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1906.10.3
Research and responses

In January 2024 Chuimei Ho, co-author of ‘Chinese Opium in America 1850-1920’, viewed photographs of the pottery pipe bowl and provided the following comments:

The potter is Pan Yunxiang 潘 允 香。Possibly a potter in Qinzhou, Guangxi province. Bowls bearing the same potter’s name have turned up in a few archaeological sites in North America (California, Montana, Nevada, and British Columbia, see ‘Chinese Opium in America’ pp.168, 169, 173, PB-16 type). The stamps on this piece are arranged differently from those on American ones. I can’t read what the small circular stamp shows. A similar configuration on the American counterparts reads a stylized character “sheng” [i.e. sound].

Search terms: Narcotic, Pottery, Opium Accessory, Pipe