Live Auction 15785The Collection of Paul F. Walter
A SILVERED-METAL HOOKAH BASE
Lot 245

A SILVERED-METAL HOOKAH BASE

INDIA, PROBABLY MODERN

Closed27 September 2017

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USD 3,250

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A SILVERED-METAL HOOKAH BASE
INDIA, PROBABLY MODERN
In the shape of a hookah base, with dense flowers and foliage on a matted ground
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 25 May 2005, lot 101.

Specialist note

This object was requested by the curator of the Passion for the Exotic exhibition as an example of the types of silver that Lockwood de Forest admired and collected, and which influenced his own designs.