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LOT 2306
Indian Bronze Figural Opium Pipe
20TH CENTURY A.D.
7 in. (284 grams, 18cm).
With separate tapering stem curved at the end and decorated with repoussé scrolls, bowl formed as a deity(?) standing on one leg grasping a leaf-shaped dagger in his right hand, with demonic face above his own with benign expression.
Provenance
Property of a Guernsey collector; acquired from Martel Maides, St. Peter Port, Guernsey; formerly acquired in the UK in the early 1990s.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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