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A dark green glass hookah base, England, made for the Indian market, late 18th century - early 19th century
Estimate
300 - 400 GBP
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Description
- A dark green glass hookah base, England, made for the Indian market
- 25cm. height and diam.
the dark green glass of moulded bell-shaped form with ridged neck, the body with cut decoration with geometric and foliate major and minor bands
Catalogue Note
A comparable dark green glass hookah base of English manufacture made for the Indian market is in the al-Sabah collection (see Stefano Carboni, Glass from Islamic Lands, London 2001, p.381, cat.104f.)
Records indicate that in 1642 Jerome Johnson was selling "hubble-bubbles" for the Indian and Ottoman markets, and in 1788 The Calcutta Chronicle included advertisements for "Hooka bottoms rich-cut" (ibid., p.385.)