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Description: | A hookah top made from brass and copper with turquoise inlay. The top has a copper tube at the bottom and leads to a bell shaped section has turquoise inlay at the rim and decorative panels with floral motifs inlaid with black and turquoise and the sections in between have three inlaid motifs. The spout extends from this section and has inlaid decoration. The top of the hookah top in an inverted one that has a hinged, domed lid with a decorative knob. There is a chain attached to the lid and cone that has broken.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no nn15427 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | hookahs brass (alloy) turquoise copper stone brass Health and Healing | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-131798 | Go to resource |
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