A CLEAR GLASS HUQQA BASE WITH FLORAL BOUQUET, INDIA OR PERSIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY |

the clear spherical body with central pontil mark to underside, slightly flaring neck with wide flange, interior created with spray of flowers in yellow, green, white and blue opaque glass

Christie's, The Saeed Motamed Collection - Part II, London, 7 October 2013, lot 251.
Sotheby's, London, 12 October 1988, lot 148.

Intact, this lot was recently cleaned, the glass slightly opaque, when filled with water - transparent, some production marks to neck, old collection labels to underside, as viewed.
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A similar example is illustrated in Jenkins, MMA, p.50, no.58 (in which these huqqa bottles are said to derive from eighteenth-century Venetian Bigaglia glasses).