Period:Unknown Production date:20thC
Materials:wutong, brass, bronze, silver, gold,
Technique:inlaid
Dimensions:Diameter: 1.40 centimetres (a) Diameter: 1.10 centimetres (b) Diameter: 0.70 centimetres (c) Diameter: 0.40 centimetres (d) Length: 11 centimetres (a) Length: 10 centimetres (b) Length: 5.20 centimetres (c) Length: 8.90 centimetres (d)
Description:
Four smoking-pipes, three made of black patinated and inlaid bronze. Two (the smallest and largest) of copper with small quantities of gold inlaid with base silver (wu tong); brown-black patinated pipe with trellis inlay is of a copper-tin alloy (real bronze, and arsenic); bowls of base silver.
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Comments:Items a-c were purchased for moderate sums from the antiquities stalls in Kunming market and almost certainly date from this century.The three black patinated pipes complement the existing seven pieces of wutong obtained from the Collier collection which are all boxes.The brass pipe (d) is of a modern date of a type now made in a locality where much of China’s brass coinage was minted during the Qing dynasty. Base silver bowls. i.e. about 30% copper.
Materials:wutong, brass, bronze, silver, gold,
Technique:inlaid
Dimensions:Diameter: 1.40 centimetres (a) Diameter: 1.10 centimetres (b) Diameter: 0.70 centimetres (c) Diameter: 0.40 centimetres (d) Length: 11 centimetres (a) Length: 10 centimetres (b) Length: 5.20 centimetres (c) Length: 8.90 centimetres (d)
Description:
Four smoking-pipes, three made of black patinated and inlaid bronze. Two (the smallest and largest) of copper with small quantities of gold inlaid with base silver (wu tong); brown-black patinated pipe with trellis inlay is of a copper-tin alloy (real bronze, and arsenic); bowls of base silver.
IMG
Comments:Items a-c were purchased for moderate sums from the antiquities stalls in Kunming market and almost certainly date from this century.The three black patinated pipes complement the existing seven pieces of wutong obtained from the Collier collection which are all boxes.The brass pipe (d) is of a modern date of a type now made in a locality where much of China’s brass coinage was minted during the Qing dynasty. Base silver bowls. i.e. about 30% copper.
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