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"tombstone": "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",
"current_location": "116 Islamic",
"title": "Hookah Base",
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"department": "Indian and Southeast Asian Art",
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"measurements": "Overall: 19.8 cm (7 13/16 in.)",
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"title": "Year in Review (1961)",
"description": "Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961).",
"opening_date": "1961-11-01T05:00:00"
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"title": "Art of Mughal India",
"description": "Art of Mughal India. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (January 15, 1964-March 25, 1963).",
"opening_date": "1964-01-15T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 207268,
"title": "Glass of the Sultans",
"description": "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).",
"opening_date": "2001-05-24T00:00:00"
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{
"id": 203111,
"title": "Art and Stories from Mughal India",
"description": "Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016).",
"opening_date": "2016-07-31T04:00:00"
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{
"id": 350154,
"title": "Paintings of Bikaner \u2013 Indian Gallery 242 Rotation",
"description": "Paintings of Bikaner \u2013 Indian Gallery 242 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 7, 2019-April 5, 2020).",
"opening_date": "2019-11-07T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 396857,
"title": "Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)",
"description": "Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 21, 2021-May 31, 2022).",
"opening_date": "2021-05-21T04:00:00"
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"description": "(Khalil Rabenou [1902\u20131961], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"date": "?\u20131961",
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"did_you_know": "The neckpiece was made separately and attached to the blown glass bowl.",
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"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\u2014sometimes perfumed with herbs or fresh fruit\u2014a 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.",
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"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80031329"
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"citation": "Marcus, Margaret F. \u201cA Gilded Blue Glass Vase: From Mughal India.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 10 (December 1962): 243\u2013247.
Published as: Gilded Blue Glass Vase",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 244-245, fig. 1",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151921"
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"citation": "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": null
},
{
"citation": "Dikshit, Moreshwar Gangadhar. History of Indian Glass. [Bombay]: University of Bombay, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pl. IIA",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 312",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n332"
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"citation": "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\u2013285",
"url": "https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/74621"
},
{
"citation": "Du Pasquier, Jacqueline. Histoire du verre: les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Islam. Paris: Massin, 2007.",
"page_number": "p. 124",
"url": null
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{
"citation": "Desjardins, Tara. Mughal Glass: A History of Glassmaking in India. New Delhi: Roli Books, 2024.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 121, no. 42",
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