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Lot 1049
A bidri hookah base Bidar, Deccan, mid 18th century
19 March 2012, 14:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$3,500 inc. premium
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A bidri hookah base
Bidar, Deccan, mid 18th century
Silver and bronze; of bell shape with niche panels containing stylized palmettes surrounded by a field of star forms and scrolling arabesque borders below a spreading mouth with matching decoration.
7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm.) high
Silver and bronze; of bell shape with niche panels containing stylized palmettes surrounded by a field of star forms and scrolling arabesque borders below a spreading mouth with matching decoration.
7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm.) high
Footnotes
Compare with another bell-shaped hookahs with large stylized floral motif, but on a plain ground, in Zebrowski, Gold, Silver & Bronze from Mughal India, 1997, p. 236. For an example with an allover 'star form' pattern see Simon Ray, 2010, no. 28, p. 64.
























