South East Asian Horn Opium Pipe

CIRCA 18TH-19TH CENTURY A.D.

17 3/4 in. (346 grams, 45 cm wide including stem).

The large pipe bowl carved from a cow's horn with an iron fitting to the top and a bronze base fitting with leaf decorations to the front, and the long wooden stem tied to an iron fitting on the bowl. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From a old Dorset, UK, specialist collection.
Acquired on the UK art market since the 1990s.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent.

Accompanied by a previous catalogue information slip.

CONDITION

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