Huqqa Base with Wheel-Cut Decoration

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early 19th century · Green glass; cut and inlaid with gold · Islamic Art

The materials, style and shape of this huqqa base bridge two important parts of our collection: Indian decorative arts and objects evidencing cultural exchange with Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The decorative floral forms are known in metal bidri huqqa bases from the seventeenth century, while the object itself may have been produced using European glass in the nineteenth century.

Artist

Unknown

Date

early 19th century

Medium

Green glass; cut and inlaid with gold

Department

Islamic Art

Credit line

Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2020