AN IMPRESSIVE SILVER BIDRI AND SILVER HOOKAH
INDIA, CIRCA 1860 AND LATER
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Auction: 11 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
comprised of a large splayed base surmounted by a 19th century bell-shaped hookah bottle, from which issues a long silver stem with an elaborate succession of drop-shaped, spherical and tapering elements rising to the furnace in a poppy-bud form, the decoration with stylised flowers within cusped medallions
Dimensions
79.3cm high, base 37.2cm diameter
Footnote
For another complete hookah set, see Christie's, Arts of India, 1 October 2012, lot 219.