Opium Antique

The table features a rectangular top with a woven rattan insert, typical of opium beds, originally designed for comfort during opium consumption.

This silver multi-lobed opium box is decorated with ideograms and flowers for luxury and longevity.

Originally designed as an opium bed, the piece now functions beautifully as a coffee table while preserving its historic character.

Antique Print of an opium den in Yogyakarta / Jogjakarta on Java, Indonesia.

A large antique Ming Dynasty style kang opium bed from the early 20th century, with bulging chow legs and hand-carved frieze in scroll pattern.

Ein Tag in der Opium-Höhle is a striking and theatrical example of early cinema advertising, capturing the fascination—and fear—surrounding opium dens at the dawn of the 20th century.

Experiment is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Woman is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Portrait is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Woman is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Portrait is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Portrait is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

The Mask is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

This object is an antique Chinese/Tibetan silver smoking pipe, commonly associated with traditional tobacco or historical opium use. It features a long, cylindrical metal stem adorne...

This large antique Chinese hardwood daybed, often referred to in the antiques trade as an opium bed, features a woven rattan platform and beautifully preserved late Qing craftsmanshi...

The Rose Mandarin and Rose Medallion patterns of the Daoguang period were the most successful of these designs, and they continued to be shipped to America in quantity until the Opiu...

The consort is seated on an opium platform bed, fronted by a pink and green floral decorated tapestry; while a low table has a blue vase atop filled with fresh cut flowers.

The fine crafted table to the left is accommodating, what appears to be, a water pipe, perhaps to provide an opium high at some point. All are positioned on a well made colorfully em...

For sale is a fine quality, 100% original museum grade Chinese water smoking pipe (frequently mistakenly referred to in the West as an opium pipe); dating from the late 19th century ...

This small porcelain object is a scale weight from the late Ming-dynasty (1368-1644), a dense counterweight for a tabletop balances used by merchants to parcel out spices, opium or o...

Slightly different in design to the more regularly found opium tables these hardwood coffee tables are always very popular indeed.

Such chopsticks were also used to safely touch opium pipe bowls or tools that had been heated by an opium lamp.

The woman holds a bouquet of poppies in one hand and wears a crown of flowers and poppy capsules, a dreamlike symbol that, in reference to opium, is associated with deep sleep and Mo...

Amazing pair of porcelain apothecary jars, with cartouches reading "Amber" and "Opium." These jars were traditionally used by apothecaries to store medicinal liquids.

The globe is inscribed with continental names, while beneath it lie potent symbols of mortality and human vice, including bottles labelled Drugs, Opium, Arsenic, and Gunpowder, along...

the pipe heads point to a combination of opium and tobacco usage. The gorgeous patina suggests aged bronze and possibly a cast bronze pieces.

V Deposse" Literature: Dynamic Beauty Sculpture of Art Nouveau Paris, Macklowe Gallery, 2011, p 206 Macklowe Gallery's Curator Notes: The poppy as a symbol in Art Nouveau is linked ...

Its formula ran to sixty or more ingredients, among them viper flesh, opium, cinnamon, and honey, matured for years before use.

Eugène Delacroix “for mortal hearts […] divine opium” Eugène Delacroix was born in 1798 into a privileged family: his father, Charles Delacroix, who had briefly served as Minister ...

Antique Burmese 10 tical A-le, a zoomorphic form bronze market weight often referred to as an “opium weight”, in the form of a Karaweik, a Burmese crane with characteristic pointed b...

How were they used? The heated opium was placed in the lidded well of the pipe.

Tobacco Water Pipe with Set of Complete Accessories China Late 19th/early 20th century White metal (baiting), copper decoration, silk cording and tassel H: 22 in :: 56 cm Water pipe...

Such chopsticks were also used to safely touch pipe bowls or tools that had been heated by an oil lamp while smoking opium. The thin metal chopsticks are twisted at one end for a dec...

The pair dates to the 19th century or earlier and would have been used for drinking tea, rice wine, or opium tea. The small cups are devoid of ornamentation, instead darkened by a bu...

Treaty ports and major cities such as Peking (Beijing), Canton (Guangzhou), Shanghai, Nanking (Nanjing), Hankow, and Foochow are prominently shown, reflecting China’s growing integra...

Amongst these groups were the Parsi business families, selling Indian opium to China and setting up the financial family barons of Bombay as it is today.

The tale is presented as a monologue by Gabral Misquitta, a half-caste opium addict, six weeks before his death. It describes the life of the opium den, and of the opium smokers, in ...

Nude is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921.

A 19th century Qing Dynasty rattan woven opium pillow from an antique opium bed created in China.

Light is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Figure is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Woman is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Nude is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Woman is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

The illustration features Brassica napus (rapeseed) and Papaver somniferum (opium poppy), both beautifully rendered with vibrant hand-applied coloring.

A very good quality mid-19th century oriental hardwood coffee table having inset marble top over elegant pierced frieze raised on cabriole legs (Much larger than the more commo...

The Nude is a lithograph print on paper, realized by Jean Paul Sauget for "Les Sours d'Opium". The poem in French on the rear. Good conditions.

This water pipe designed for smoking tobacco, often mistaken for an opium pipe due to similar historical contexts and settings where both were used.

The Sassoon family, known as "Rothschilds of the East" due to the immense wealth they accumulated in finance and the opium trade, are a Baghdadi Jewish family. The family's businesse...

which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but...

She married billionaire Vincent Astor, whose great-great-grandfather John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) was America’s first multi-millionaire from real estate, fur, and opium trade. Vincen...

Afyon translates into English as 'Opium'; the town was previously named Afyonkarahisar, which means 'the Dark Opium Castle.'

Eugène Delacroix "for mortal hearts [...] divine opium". Eugène Delacroix was born in 1798, the son of Charles Delacroix who had served briefly as minister of foreign affairs under...

Used as a betel box or tobacco opium box. Produced using the traditional 'lost wax' process.

One is seated with an opium pipe; displayed in a polychrome romantic tropical environment with pavilions, rockwork, trellising, foliage, palms, with a peacock and HoHo bird at their ...

The engraving is historically important as it documents the limited zone in which foreigners were allowed to trade under the Canton System prior to the First Opium War (1839–1842). I...

The company eventually handled half of the world's trade, especially in goods such as cotton, tea, silk, opium, and salt. In 1702, it merged with a rival company and became a major ...

Dusky moonlight plays off the lily pads, and they take on the suggestion of white opium poppies. The artist is the bridge between Nature and Allegory, and infused into this piece of ...

Despite common belief that water pipes such as these were used to smoke opium, water pipes such as these were more commonly used for smoking Tobacco.

Created in China, this low table was originally made from a cut down Lohan bed, also called an opium smokers' bed. The table showcases a rectangular top with hand-woven rattan inset ...