id: 136970 accession number: 1961.44 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.44 updated: 2023-01-11 01:04:55.786000 Hookah Base, c. 1700. India, Mughal Dynasty (1526-1756). 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. 1700 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1750 current location: 116 Islamic creditline: Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund copyright: --- culture: India, Mughal Dynasty (1526-1756) 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: 1961-11-01T04:00:00 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 (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: The neckpiece was made separately and attached to the blown glass bowl. digital description: wall description: Smoking tobacco was introduced to the Mughal court from Iran in the very early 1600s and soon became popular. This base formed part of a hookah, or water pipe, which consisted of a base that held water—sometimes perfumed with herbs or fresh fruit—a detachable bowl to hold tobacco, and a long tube. Early hookahs used existing vessels for bases, including coconut shells. By the late 1600s or early 1700s, richly decorated pieces like this were produced. The striking gold poppies on a cobalt blue background might indicate that opium was used in the hookah. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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: Carboni, Stefano, and David Whitehouse. Glass of the Sultans. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. page number: 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: --- 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