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Lot 280

A Mughal tinned-copper Huqqa Base inscribed with a poem about smoking
Northern India, 17th Century

18 June 2013, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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A Mughal tinned-copper Huqqa Base inscribed with a poem about smoking
Northern India, 17th Century

of pear shaped form on a splayed foot, the neck flaring from a raised ring, profusely engraved with a band containing a repeat design of stylised palmette motifs, above and below bands of inscription interspersed by quatrefoils, the lower band with a frieze of suspended palmette pendants containing flowerheads, the shoulder with a frieze of floral sprays, the neck with a frieze of botehs
35 cm. high

Footnotes

Inscriptions: qalyån be-kaf-e to honrvar gardad/ bey dar dahan-e to ney shekar gardad/ ze la'l-e ghoncheh-ye qalyån chubak (?)/ saråsar-e ney ze la'l shekarinat ney-shekar [gardad], 'The qalyån becomes excellent in your hand/ The pipe (cane) becomes sugar cane in your mouth/ From your ruby-red bud-like lips, the little stick (?) of the qalyån/ From your sweet lips the entire pipe will become sugar-cane'.

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