Cloisonne & Paktong Chinese Water Pipe - Ca 1900 Stone & Marble Indian Lacquer boxes are used

Indian Lacquer boxes are used for storing jewellery or bindi (the red powder that Indian ladies apply to the forehead)

Shanxi and Shandong Province

Features: Central Ganesh Figure

A Rare Painted Carved Teak Horse from Gujerat - early 19thC

It's crafted with solid cedar wood with a brass hasp

Cloisonne & Paktong Chinese Water Pipe - Ca 1900 Stone & Marble Indian Lacquer boxes are usedThis 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