Smoking pipe bowl

Museum number:
1-246686
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010246686
Accession number:
Acc.3605
Description:
Chinese stoneware. Opium pipe bowl. Produced by processing the wet clay into a mold with the fingers. Note the highly burnished 'smoking surface'; and the unpressed characters on the underside (these are usually salutations to the users or kiln names).
Donor:
City and County of San Francisco, Waste Water Management Program
Collection place:
Site N-5 (North Shore Pump Station), San Francisco Waterfront, San Francisco
Verbatim coll. place:
San Francisco, CA
Collector:
Archeo-Tec
Collection date:
June 1977 - September 1980
Materials:
Clay
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Pipe bowls, Pipes (smoking equipment), and Stoneware (pottery)
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Department:
Nonnative California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
see acc. envelope for copy of handwritten notes
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Smoking pipe bowl, accession number 1-246686, described as Chinese stoneware. Opium pipe bowl. Produced by processing the wet clay into a mold with the fingers. Note the highly burnished 'smoking surface'; and the unpressed characters on the underside (these are usually salutations to the users or kiln names).

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