Cloisonne & Paktong Chinese Water Pipe - Ca 1900 Stone & Marble Shanxi and Shandong Province

Shanxi and Shandong Province

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Cloisonne & Paktong Chinese Water Pipe - Ca 1900 Stone & Marble Shanxi and Shandong ProvinceThis 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 floral scenes 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 British