Cloisonne & Paktong Chinese Water Pipe - Ca 1900 Material - Chicken Wing Wood The interior is spacious with

The interior is spacious with an internal candle box

Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogoku noryo ohanabi)

This particular style of carving is unusual and provincial

75 dia x 3

64 x 2 x 92 (w x d x h cms)

Cloisonne & Paktong Chinese Water Pipe - Ca 1900 Material - Chicken Wing Wood The interior is spacious withThis antique Chinese cloisonne & paktong water pipe would have been used to smoke tobacco & opium. It is constructed from a copper, zinc, and nickel alloy called paktong and has cloisonne work depicting Insects and porcelain and dates to the 1900's. Heated opium or tobacco would be placed in the lidded well of this ornate water pipe and the fumes were inhaled through the pipe The first Opium war was triggered by the Qing dynasty's campaign against the