huqqa
Huqqa
19th century (made)
19th century (made)
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| Place of origin |
Earthenware huqqa base on a flared foot with a horizontal tubular body. A short neck with a flared mouth rises at one end, with a taller cylindrical neck-piece with an inverted conical mouth above a series of rings at the other. Decorative hooked knops are attached in the middle of the top of the main body and at one end. The piece is splashed with a metallic oxide.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | huqqa (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware |
| Brief description | Earthenware huqqa, India, 19th century |
| Physical description | Earthenware huqqa base on a flared foot with a horizontal tubular body. A short neck with a flared mouth rises at one end, with a taller cylindrical neck-piece with an inverted conical mouth above a series of rings at the other. Decorative hooked knops are attached in the middle of the top of the main body and at one end. The piece is splashed with a metallic oxide. |
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| Object history | A 'huqqa' is a smoking device that consists of a small container with smoking leaves mounted on a base filled with water which is provided with a long tube and arranged so that smoke is drawn through the water where it is cooled and up the tube to the mouth. Transferred from the India Museum in 1879. 1880 Register Entry: [Room 8. Wall Case 35.] ' 01,579. HOOKAH. Part of, red, with bronzed spots. 441 H. M. C.' |
| Other number | HMC.441 - H.M.C. Loan no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 01579(IS) |
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| Record created | March 27, 2003 |
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