Lot 110
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AN UNUSUAL, GOLD, DIAMOND AND GLASS-INLAID JADE HOOKAH MOUTHPIECE
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
AN UNUSUAL, GOLD, DIAMOND AND GLASS-INLAID JADE HOOKAH MOUTHPIECE

LATE 19TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL, GOLD, DIAMOND AND GLASS-INLAID JADE HOOKAH MOUTHPIECE
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The cylindrical bottom section inlaid with four gold wire flower stems with diamond flower and green glass leaves, between ruby-glass borders, the bulb-shaped upper section with a band of diamond buds outlined in and conjoined by gold wire, the jade of grey-green color
3 13/16 in. (9.1 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

A gold and gemstone-inlaid jade hookah mouthpiece of this type with curved tip described as Mughal, c. 1675-1700, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is illustrated by S. Markel, The World of Jade, Bombay, c. 1992, p. 3, no. 3, where the author notes that "Mughal nobles preferred to use their own mouthpiece when smoking from a communal water-pipe".

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