id: 136970 accession number: 1961.44 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.44 updated: 2025-05-23 11:08:15.740000 Hookah Base, c. 1750. Mughal India, possibly Lucknow. Gold on blue glass; overall: 19.8 cm (7 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund, 1961.44 title: Hookah Base title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1750 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1800 current location: 116 Islamic creditline: Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund copyright: --- culture: Mughal India, possibly Lucknow technique: gold on blue glass department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Glass find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 19.8 cm (7 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1961) opening date: 1961-11-01T05:00:00 Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961). title: Art of Mughal India opening date: 1964-01-15T05:00:00 Art of Mughal India. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (January 15, 1964-March 25, 1963). title: Glass of the Sultans opening date: 2001-05-24T00:00:00 Glass of the Sultans. The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY (May 24-September 3, 2001); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 2, 2001-January 13, 2002); Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece (February 20-May 15, 2002). title: Art and Stories from Mughal India opening date: 2016-07-31T04:00:00 Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016). title: Paintings of Bikaner – Indian Gallery 242 Rotation opening date: 2019-11-07T05:00:00 Paintings of Bikaner – Indian Gallery 242 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 7, 2019-April 5, 2020). title: Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation) opening date: 2021-05-21T04:00:00 Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 21, 2021-May 31, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Khalil Rabenou [1902–1961], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1961 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1961– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Marcus, Margaret F. “A Gilded Blue Glass Vase: From Mughal India.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 10 (December 1962): 243–247. page number: url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151921 Welch, Stuart Cary. The Art of Mughal India: Painting & Precious Objects. New York: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1963. page number: Mentioned: p. 174, no. 80 url: Dikshit, Moreshwar Gangadhar. History of Indian Glass. [Bombay]: University of Bombay, 1969. page number: Reproduced: pl. IIA url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 312 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n332 Carboni, Stefano, and David Whitehouse. Glass of the Sultans. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 138, pp. 284–285 url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/74621 Du Pasquier, Jacqueline. Histoire du verre: les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Islam. Paris: Massin, 2007. page number: p. 124 url: Desjardins, Tara. Mughal Glass: A History of Glassmaking in India. New Delhi: Roli Books, 2024. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 121, no. 42 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.44/1961.44_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.44/1961.44_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.44/1961.44_full.tif