Huqqa Snake Cover
1800-1850 (made)
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A tapering flattened tube, white cotton ground fabric, surface entirely covered with couched silver and silver-gilt strips, inset sections of green and red velvet, applied beetle-wing segments, floss silk embroidery and tinsel.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Cotton, velvet, metal strip, sequins, beetle-wings, tinsel; embroidered and applique. |
| Brief description | Embroidered huqqa snake cover, Lucknow, 19th century. |
| Physical description | A tapering flattened tube, white cotton ground fabric, surface entirely covered with couched silver and silver-gilt strips, inset sections of green and red velvet, applied beetle-wing segments, floss silk embroidery and tinsel. |
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| Production | Probably from Lucknow |
| Bibliographic reference | India's fabled city : the art of courtly Lucknow / Stephen Markel with Tushara Bindu Gude ; and contributions by Muzaffar Alam ... [et al.]. Munich ;London: Prestel, Johann Gottlieb, c2010 Number: 9783791350752 (hbk.), 3791350757 (hbk.)
cat. no. 85, p. 235. |
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| Accession number | IS.1:2-1999 |
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| Record created | April 22, 2010 |
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