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Lot 120

An enamelled silver Huqqa Base
Lucknow, early 19th Century

6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £10,000 inc. premium

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An enamelled silver Huqqa Base
Lucknow, early 19th Century

bell-shaped, with slightly flaring ridged neck, decorated with dark blue, green and deep red enamels, the body with oval medallions comprising birds amidst floral decoration, interspersed with birds perched on hanging floral vines above peacocks, bands of scrolling floral vines to shoulder and base within narrow borders of diamond-shaped motifs, similar decoration to neck, traces of original gilding
19 cm. high; 19.8 cm. diam.; 1260 g.

Footnotes

For comparable examples see Stephen Markel and Tushara Bindu Gude, The Art of Courtly Lucknow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition catalogue, 2010, pp. 201 and 209, nos. 90 and 83; and another sold at Christie's, Art of The Islamic & Indian Worlds, 7 April, 2011, lot 289.

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