Live Auction 18768The Oliver Hoare Collection
A CUT-GLASS BELL SHAPED HUQQA BASE AND ITS KOFTGARI STEEL FURNACE AND WIND SHIELD
Lot 27

A CUT-GLASS BELL SHAPED HUQQA BASE AND ITS KOFTGARI STEEL FURNACE AND WIND SHIELD

THE BASE, POSSIBLY IRELAND, THE FURNACE, STEM AND PIPE, INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed25 October 2019

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GBP 4,375

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A CUT-GLASS BELL SHAPED HUQQA BASE AND ITS KOFTGARI STEEL FURNACE AND WIND SHIELD
THE BASE, POSSIBLY IRELAND, THE FURNACE, STEM AND PIPE, INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The base ribbed, the shoulders cut with repeating lozenges, the furnace with floral patterns arranged in foliated cusped medallions, with hexagonal patterned cut-glass mouthpiece
The base 9 ¼in. (23.5cm.) high

Specialist note

Oliver Hoare's immediate reference was to Alice in Wonderland and to the 'caterpillar sitting on a toadstool puffing away'.