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Lamp for opium smoking with four detachable parts: a font, gallery, glass shade, and cover. The brass font is domed in shape for holding oil, and covered with a small screwed cap when not in use. The bell-shaped glass shade has a ventilation hole at the top. A brass gallery supports the glass shade, and is decorated with a perforated trellis. The cylindrical cover is also brass, with a slightly convex top.
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
The database sometimes uses language taken from historical documents to help research, which may now appear outdated and even offensive. The database also includes information on objects that are considered secret or sacred by some communities.
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