Pipe, Japan, ca.1800-1850
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca.1800-1850
This tobacco pipe has a brown and tan coloured bamboo centre and silver mouthpiece and bowl. It has iron barrels with high relief gold incrustation featuring designs of a lion, peonies and butterflies among rocks.
Tobacco pipe. Brown and tan coloured bamboo tube. The pipe has an iron and gold bowl and mouthpiece, featuring a lion, peonies and a butterfly, with areas detailed in gold.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Materials and techniques
- Bamboo, iron and gold bowl
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- Japan
Identification
- Candidate id
- vam-O39442
- Museum object number
- M.26-1947
- Source note
- Facts transcribed from the linked single-object source. Wider type attribution and authenticity have not been independently verified.
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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