Opium Lamp

An elegant pair of scissors once used to trim the wick of an opium lamp. The petite scissors are made of brass with polished handles that curve gracefully back towards the blades.

A pair of white brass tweezers once used to advance the wick of an opium lamp. The antique tweezers are simply shaped and feature a bell-shaped scraper at one end, used to remove ash...

This antique opium lamp dates to the late 19th century and was used to channel the precise amount of heat needed to vaporize the bit of opium placed in a pipe and held over the lamp.

This antique opium lamp dates to the early 20th century and was used to channel the precise amount of heat needed to vaporize the bit of opium placed in a pipe and held over the lamp.

A squat pewter vessel for pouring oil fuel into a small opium lamp.

This low, four-leg stool is actually a headrest used atop a daybed or mat to support the head while sleeping, reclining, or smoking opium. As an opium accessory, rigid headrests such...

This low, four-leg stool is actually a headrest used atop a daybed or mat to support the head while sleeping, reclining, or smoking opium. As an opium accessory, rigid headrests such...

Tall and rigid, the headrest would have been less of a pillow and more of a platform that allowed the inebriated smoker to more comfortably lie on their side and have a view of the o...

The lid of the box unfolds into a long tray for placing a pipe and other accessories while smoking opium. The interior is fitted with a removable compartment for storing an oil lamp ...

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Though missing its original glass chimney, this 19th century opium lamp is nevertheless a fantastic collector's item.

Opium smokers used opium lamps to make vaping and inhaling the opium easier.

The pipe is heated over a special opium lamp. After several smokes, the pipe-bowl is removed and the ashes on the inside of the pipe are removed with a scraper.

This low, four-leg stool is actually a 19th-century headrest used atop a daybed or mat to support the head while sleeping, reclining, or smoking opium. As an opium accessory, rigid h...

19th century Chinese Paktong opium lamp with original glass shade, reticulated base decorated with dragon motif.

Offered is a fabulous, 1970s, Chinese polychrome ceramic figurative sculpture opium pillow that has been converted into a lamp.

A good, large, antique Chinese Qing dynasty bronze and cloisonne censer, circa 1900. The lidded censer having a Chinese lion (Shi) to the lid, the body and lid inlaid with floral cl...

Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) table lamp made from a vase painted with an intricate green motif of flora and dragon flies with brass hardware and a turned wooden base and top....

Chinese carved jade censer, featuring intricate openwork carvings in traditional motifs. The censer displays a range of colors from green to orange and brown, with detailed openwork ...

A small and interesting cast bronze archaistic scholar vase with loose ring handles and taotie mask design, late Ming or early Qing Dynasty, mid 17th century, China. The small vas...

Cloisonné enamel vase of baluster form and lobed sides decorated with foliage and flowers on a black background, gilt copper neck and base. Around 1900 Period: Qing Dynasty Type: Va...

FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING Japanese cloisonné enamel vase in the manner of Ota Tameshiro, dating to the Meiji period circa 1900. The vase is of unusual pentagonal lobed form with a ge...

Dramatic large Chinese cloisonné vase featuring a flower vase decoration on one side and a gourd on the back. The decoration stands out against a black ground with cloud patterns cov...

Chinese, 19th century. A Peranakan porcelain or Nyonya ware vase decorated with flowers and a flying bird. Approx: 17.5" H x 4.25" W (vase measures 8.25" H). Please note: This has...

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. The hinged compartment is where ...

Rare Chinese opium smoker's kit, including a lacquered boiled cardboard pillow-box and a pipe showing signs of intensive use. The pipe fits perfectly inside the box. The curved shape...

Amazing and beautiful Chinese cloisonné opium pipe, enamelled with loto flowers, character marks to the base, 28cm high Astonishing opium pipe with motifs in cloisonné enamel and met...

Antique Chinese paktong alloy water pipe, most likely mid to late 19th century. All pieces are still together, including the down stem and two tweezer and brush smoking tools. Two si...

Asian metal opium pipe with filigree art work in floral designs. Silvered metal alloy, patinated could be cleaned to be shiny. Long and unusual decorative collector opium pipe, very ...

Large-scale 19th century English display cabinet executed in the Chinoiserie tradition. Constructed in carved mahogany and conceived as a tripartite architectural façade, each glazed...

An opium pipe is a pipe designed specifically for the vaporization and inhalation of opium. But these beautiful little antiques have become one-of-a-kind works of art. This late 19th...

Carved Turkish Figural Meerschaum Pipe with Moorish Turkish Bearded head. Meerschaum pipe is a smoking pipe made from the mineral sepiolite, also known as meerschaum. Meerschaum , Ge...

A pair of early 20th-century tools used for harvesting opium latex from poppy flowers. Formed of bamboo handles and iron blades, the rustic tools were used to scratch the surface of ...

A small Chinese chatelaine tool set strung with a single brass spoon. Suspended from one's clothing at the shoulder, back, or waist, a tool set such as this was used for a variety of...

RARE CHINESE OPIUM BED 19th Century in lacquered, painted and gilded wood decorated with oriental landscapes and plant elements. With two drawers simulating five. Dim.: 114 x 265 x...

A set of three 19th-century tools used for harvesting opium latex from poppy flowers. Formed of bamboo handles and iron blades, the rustic tools were used to scratch the surface of a...