Kalian
ca. 1650-1700 (made)
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This vessel might originally have been a sprinkler with a long neck or a kalian, which is an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water. They are also known as a hookah, huqqa, qalian, qalyan, qaliyan, narghile, shisha, and a hubble-bubble.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, lustre decoration |
| Brief description | Kalian or sprinkler base, fritware painted in lustre over the glaze, Iran, 1650-1700. |
| Physical description | Bottle of fritware, with bulbous body, painted with trees and flowers in metallic lustre over the glaze; the neck missing. |
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| Summary | This vessel might originally have been a sprinkler with a long neck or a kalian, which is an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water. They are also known as a hookah, huqqa, qalian, qalyan, qaliyan, narghile, shisha, and a hubble-bubble. |
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| Accession number | 946-1876 |
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| Record created | March 12, 2009 |
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