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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4520768, member: 2844"]It is not an opium pipe, that large bowl doesn't work for opium.</p><p>Most traditional Asian pipes are for smoking medicinal herbs or tobacco, and that is what this was likely used for.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the similar pipes I come across are described as being made by the Shan, an ethnic minority who mostly live in Burma (Myanmar).</p><p>I don't know the exact use of the pipes, but the Garuda, the divine bird from Hinduism, adds a spiritual link to the pipe, which points in the direction of healing or ritual.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think yours and the ones on Catawiki are probably made for export or tourism, but they are very nice.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is an older Burmese pipe bowl with a praying figure, much like a Teppanom, a Thai and Burmese guardian angel, so also a spiritual figure:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://bronzesofindiadotcom.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/smoking-pipe-frontal.jpg?w=310&h=402" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://bronzesofindia.com/smoking-pipe/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://bronzesofindia.com/smoking-pipe/" rel="nofollow">https://bronzesofindia.com/smoking-pipe/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4520768, member: 2844"]It is not an opium pipe, that large bowl doesn't work for opium. Most traditional Asian pipes are for smoking medicinal herbs or tobacco, and that is what this was likely used for. Most of the similar pipes I come across are described as being made by the Shan, an ethnic minority who mostly live in Burma (Myanmar). I don't know the exact use of the pipes, but the Garuda, the divine bird from Hinduism, adds a spiritual link to the pipe, which points in the direction of healing or ritual. I think yours and the ones on Catawiki are probably made for export or tourism, but they are very nice. Below is an older Burmese pipe bowl with a praying figure, much like a Teppanom, a Thai and Burmese guardian angel, so also a spiritual figure: [IMG]https://bronzesofindiadotcom.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/smoking-pipe-frontal.jpg?w=310&h=402[/IMG] [URL]https://bronzesofindia.com/smoking-pipe/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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