Opium Antique

The large sculpted poppies encircling the maiden’s head symbolize dreams, sensuality, and the subconscious, consistent with the opium poppy’s presence in fin-de-siècle symbolism.

These items are commonly referred to now as having been made for the Chinese Export market and the most prolifically found of these items tend to be coffee tables, opium tables, nest...

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.

With her head wreathed in lilies, she stands in a field of Opium Poppies further playing with the illusion of dangerous allure.

These items are commonly referred to now as having been made for the Chinese Export market and the most prolifically found of these items tend to be coffee tables, opium tables, nest...

Created in China during the late Qing Dynasty period, this coffee table was originally made from a cut down Lohan bed, also called an opium smokers' bed. The table showcases a rectan...

These items are commonly referred to now as having been made for the Chinese Export market and the most prolifically found of these items tend to be coffee tables, opium tables, nest...

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

Cultivated in southern China, Buddha belly bamboo is often formed into elongated pipes used for smoking tobacco or opium. The undulating form of each 19th century bamboo specimen is ...

A Chinese Qing dynasty period cinnabar lacquer leather pillow from an antique opium bed, with hand painted floral motifs. Created in China during the Qing dynasty, this leather pillo...

Pain relief and sedation: The opium poppy (*Papaver somniferum*) is the source of opiates such as morphine, codeine, and thebaine, which are widely used in modern medicine to manage ...

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

Created to be used on an opium bed, this Japanese Taisho period stool features a slightly curving top supported by two X-Form legs pierced with simple geometrical motifs.

These items are commonly referred to now as having been made for the Chinese Export market and the most prolifically found of these items tend to be coffee tables, opium tables, nest...

These items are commonly referred to now as having been made for the Chinese Export market and the most prolifically found of these items tend to be coffee tables, opium tables, nest...

Oriental Satin walnut low table, coffee table This is a very attractive piece, the table is in the style of an opium table, it has a carved border beneath the plate glass top The...

Whilst this fabulous circular coffee table bears many similarities to the ever popular and relatively regularly found opium type tables, this table certainly feels like its a big ste...

Oriental deeply carved low table, coffee table This is a very attractive piece, the table is in the style of an opium table, it has a two tone lacquer finish accentuating the deta...

The carvings, crafted with virtuosity by hand, depict opium poppies and poppies, floral motifs emblematic of the Art Nouveau style, associated with the delicacy and poetry of sleep.

Late 19th century perfume bottle and opium flacon crafted of porcelain and multicolored enamels, with gilt and chiseled bronze pierced mounts.

Leeching was one of the most important retailers in Canton after the 1st Opium War, and some of the finest mugs and tankards were supplied by the firm.

Wood wrestled with severe financial anxiety and a growing addiction to opium. Despite these struggles, his output in 1930 was astonishingly prolific.

This print shows various scenes in China including a sail barrow, ferry, toy merchant graves in the country, wooden bridge, market, coffee shop, opium smokers and a city street. This...

Provenance: from a private collection San Francisco, California, acquired in London in the late 1930s, the gold snuff bottle came from the Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) in Beijing dur...

Very decorative embossed brass tray from Persian Qajar era, nice combination of traditional designs as deer, birds, flowers, Dervish or opium pipe. Handsomely intertwined with calli...

FROLIC was built in Baltimore's Gardner Brothers shipyard for the Opium Trade. When steamers came along in the late 1850's it was perfect timing for FROLIC to switch to the busy Cali...

'Night' is her soporific and drowsy counterpart, drifting along sleepily, clutching two sleeping putti to her chest, gliding along in a state of insomnia with poppies, in an opium-in...

The main bodies are heavily chased with garlands of flowers and Chinese chinoiserie garden scenes of Chinamen dressed in oriental costumes; a figure under the shade of a parasol smok...

For the catalogue of the Laboureur Centenary Tribute exhibit in 1977 (at the French Institute/Alliance Francaise; the Chrysler Museum and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts) Robert Al...

His death was a severe blow to Cocteau and drove him to use opium. During Cocteau's recovery from his opium addiction, the artist created some of his most important works including t...

The third, stunned by the opium supplied by Giacomo and mixed with a drink, was assaulted in his sleep: Marzio broke his legs with a rolling pin, Olimpio finished him hitting him in ...

The international trading bases, the waterfront 'factories' on the 'Hongs' in Canton, where they were produced, were partially burnt during the First Opium War (1839-41) and totally ...

Hand-hammered sterling silver ring applied with cooper ornament: A man in pointy hat is seated on the ground, smoking while a small dog approaches from behind, interrupting the opium...

She had been a muse to such avatars of modernism as Cocteau, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, and Coco Chanel, whom she introduced to opium and, it was rumored, sapphism. As one might expect o...

One plate in our book shows a supine seductress in a cushioned opium den that looks very much like a Martine interior.

When Radiguet died of typhoid fever, Cocteau was despondent and tried to console himself by taking opium. Filmmaking In 1930, Cocteau wrote and directed his first motion picture, t...