Légende

Pipe for smoking hashish, Islamic art, Arabic culture. The stem is slightly curved, thin, ending with a flattened amber, mouthpiece. The short silver pipe may have been used for smoking hashish — a hallucinogenic drug produced from cannabis flowers; a lump of the compressed substance was placed in the recess at the end of the pipe. The mouthpiece was made of amber, and the main part of the object was decorated using the filigree technique — ornaments from thin wires joined into intricate patterns. 1st half of the 20th century, Yemen; pipe; height 12.5 cm, width 1.7 cm., A slender curved object composed of a silver-colored metal shaft with ornate raised bands and filigreework near both ends, topped by a spherical decorative element with openwork patterns and a small circular disk with petallike cutouts beside it, and finished at the lower end with a tapered, smooth, amber-colored handle.

Crédit

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Notre référence

LZT26A24_153

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

35.7Mo (359.3Ko) / 17.6cm x 50.8cm / 2082 x 6000 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Pipe smoking hashish Islamic art Arabic culture stem slightly curved thin ending flattened amber mouthpiece short silver pipe hallucinogenic drug produced cannabis flowers lump compressed substance was placed recess pipe mouthpiece was amber main part object decorated using filigree technique ornaments thin wires joined intricate patterns 1st half 20th century Yemen height 12.5 cm width 1.7 cm slender curved object composed silver-colored metal shaft ornate raised bands filigreework near ends topped spherical decorative element openwork patterns small circular disk petallike cutouts beside finished lower tapered smooth amber-colored handle.