Unknown Indian
Huqqa Base with Landscape

CultureIndian
Titles
  • Huqqa Base with Landscape
Datemid-17th century
MediumZinc alloy; cast, engraved, and inlaid with silver and brass (bidri ware)
DimensionsOverall: 7 7/8 × 7 11/16 in. (20 × 19.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the 2019 Art of the Islamic Worlds Gala
Object number2019.700
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
113 Islamic Art Gallery
On view

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Object Type
ProvenanceAcquired by John Alderman in a trade of objects with Professor Simon Digby, London, c. 1975, please see affidavit from 2015 (for export to Metropolitan Museum of Art for the exhibition Sultans of Deccan India)
Exhibition HistorySultans of Deccan India, 1500–1700: Opulence and Fantasy, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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Catalogue raisonnéN/A

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