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Opium pipe, China, Qing dynasty to Republican period, inscribed with cyclical date corresponding to 1868 or 1928. Water buffalo horn, metal, and ceramic. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.55.6.

Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade

Harvard Art Museum, Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy St, cambridge

Speaker: Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Harvard Art Museums Objects of Addiction explores the entwined histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art market between […]