Smoking pipe
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
1800 - 1900
Materials
silver & cane
Measurements
200 x 20 x 10 mm
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 107461
Summary
A Japanese smoking pipe. The mouthpiece and bowl are made from silver with wiring decoration. The stem is made from cane. '[A Japanese tobacco-pipe with lacquered silver bowl and mouthpiece and cane stem] Another similar' (Christie's entry)
Provenance
Purchased in 1986 by the National Heritage Memorial Fund from Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000). Gifted to the National Trust in 1987 by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.