A museum display of rare opium pipes decorated with cloisonne, a
type of enamel. From a special exhibition at Holland's Kunsthal
Rotterdam that was on display in 2007. A museum display of opium
pipes adorned with tortoise shell. From a special exhibition at
Holland's Kunsthal Rotterdam that was on display in 2007. This
pipe-stem was made from segments of ox horn carved to resemble a
stem of bamboo. The pipe-stem has been fitted with a cloisonne
saddle and topped with a octagonal ceramic pipe-bowl. This
bamboo pipe with a relatively simple silver saddle is crowned by
a whimsical ceramic pipe-bowl shaped like a crab. The vast
majority of opium pipes featured a pipe-stem fashioned from a
length of bamboo. This photo shows detail of the metal fitting
known as a "saddle" by which the pipe-bowl was attached to the
pipe-stem. A rare opium pipe with a stem made from porcelain.
There are only a handful of these pipes that survived the anti-
opium eradication campaigns. A rare opium pipe adorned with
Canton enamel. With