Hookah Base
1874 (made)
Hookah base carved with flowers, Soapstone Persian 19th cent 1874
Object details
| Object type | |
| Brief description | Hookah base carved with flowers, Soapstone Persian 19th cent 1874 |
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| Object history | In 1875, Robert Murdoch Smith purchased a group of eighteen carved stone objects from Mashhad on behalf of the Museum, describing them as "modern articles made at Meshed of a kind of bluish soapstone found in the neighbourhood" (V&A Archive). |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1086-1875 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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