Skip to main content
Please wait...

A Mandarin pipe

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

December 11, 1788

Primary Source Reference:

Pennsylvania Packet (Philadelphia), 11 Dec 1788

Additional Source Text:

Notes:

Robert Morris (1734-1806), the "Financier of the Revolution," owned the merchant ship Alliance (formerly USS Alliance), which on its trading voyage to China, June 1787 to Sep 1788, took a new route through the Dutch East Indies and the Solomon Islands and returned with objects given to the Museum.

Current Scientific Name