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Description: | Bell-shaped Bidriware hookah base made of zinc with silver inlay with a short slightly flared neck with two projecting ring mouldings, the upper larger than the lower. The decoration is in horizontal bands. In the main section this takes the form of a regular pattern of stylised trefoil leaves or flowers in half drops set within a lattice framework. This pattern is repeated on the neck. One of the mouldings is decorated with a chevron pattern. One band along the lower edge and another on the shoulder is of scrolling leaves and flowers. The decoration is executed in tehnishan and tarkashi technique.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 0.145 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | hookahs metal Health and Healing | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-89011 | Go to resource |
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