Smoking pipe
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
1800 - 1900
Materials
resin & silver
Measurements
140 x 20 x 15 mm
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 107463
Summary
A Japanese smoking pipe. It is made from one piece of lacquered silver that has been carved with geometric patterns and a zoomorphic creature. 'A Japanese lacquered silver tobacco-pipe (in one piece)' (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.