Cloisonne & Paktong Chinese Water Pipe - Ca 1900 Indo Dutch This style of Indian dowry

This style of Indian dowry chest is known as a Majus

This was later changed to the sacrifice of bulls hence the significance of this piece

gentle wear

Paan was a stimulant chewed for its psychoactive effects

Cloisonne & Paktong Chinese Water Pipe - Ca 1900 Indo Dutch This style of Indian dowryThis 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