Kalian
1650-1700 (made)
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This ceramic vessel is a ‘kalian’ or base for a water-pipe used in the newly introduced practice of smoking tobacco. It held the water through which the smoke was drawn in order to cool it using a long flexible tube connected to a container through two holes. 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 with underglaze painting |
| Brief description | Kalian (water-pipe base), fritware, of spherical form, painted in underglaze blue, with red and green slip; Iran, 1650-1700. |
| Physical description | Hookah base or "Kalian" of fritware, globular, painted with zigzag bands of floral ornament in red and blue under a clear glaze. |
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| Production | Kirman Polychrome |
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| Summary | This ceramic vessel is a ‘kalian’ or base for a water-pipe used in the newly introduced practice of smoking tobacco. It held the water through which the smoke was drawn in order to cool it using a long flexible tube connected to a container through two holes. They are also known as a hookah, huqqa, qalian, qalyan, qaliyan, narghile, shisha, and a hubble-bubble. |
| Bibliographic reference | Lane, Arthur. Later Islamic Pottery. London: Faber and Faber, 1957. 133p., ill. Pages 72, 82-4, plate 57A |
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| Accession number | 2512-1876 |
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| Record created | November 19, 2003 |
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