Minneapolis Institute of Art

Base for a water pipe

India (Deccan)

Date

18th century

Medium

Zinc alloy, cast, engraved, inlaid with silver

Department

Asian Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Water pipes (hookahs) have been used to smoke tobacco from the 17th century onwards. The hookah user would have smoked from a long tube that extended from the base. An orderly row of Hyderabad poppies adorns the globular body, a popular motif that also appears in textiles and paintings. India, Asia

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