Bidriware Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa)
Hindu, 1600-1899
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Bidriware Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa)
Hindu, 1600-1899
Physical Qualities
Metal alloy, silver inlay, 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm.) H
Credit Line
Lockwood de Forest Collection
Object Number
1922.2.56
Bidri, silver inlay, slender bottle shape
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1922; American Art Galleries, New York; Lockwood de Forest purchased in India, probably 1914
Catalogue of the Rare and Valuable Examples of East Indian Persian and Syro-Damascan Art and Curios forming the private collection of the widely known artist and connoisseur Lockwood De Forest, Esq. of New York City, NY: American Art Association, 1922, no. 177.
Anne Suydam Lewis, Lockwood de Forest Painter Importer Decorator, Huntington, NY: Hecksher Museum, 1976, pp. 4-10, 12-32.
Darby, Michael, The Islamic Perspective, 1983. Exhibition catalogue, 143p., ill. ISBN 0 905035313 Catalogue n. 94, p106
Susan Stronge, Bidri ware. Inlaid metalwork from India, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985, cat. 27, p. 61
Roberta A. Mayer, "The Aesthetics of Lockwood de Forest," "Winterthur Portfolio," 31:1, The Henry Hrancis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc., 1996, pp. 1-22.
Darby, Michael, The Islamic Perspective, 1983. Exhibition catalogue, 143p., ill. ISBN 0 905035313 Catalogue n. 94, p106
Susan Stronge, Bidri ware. Inlaid metalwork from India, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985, cat. 27, p. 61
Roberta A. Mayer, "The Aesthetics of Lockwood de Forest," "Winterthur Portfolio," 31:1, The Henry Hrancis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc., 1996, pp. 1-22.
