Pipe bowls with turquoise

1 novembre 2024

In the coming months, we will be showing two exceptional bowls of water pipes in our much loved central display case. They are the crowning glory of the water pipe, but in great luxury. In a particularly refined way, an abundant number of cut turquoises have been set into both bowls, which lightens up the pipe bowl and in fact the whole hookah. This work is typical of Persia in the second half of the nineteenth century, although the use of turquoise goes back to an older tradition of the Quajar dynasty. These unique water pipe bowls will remain on display in the central display case until the end of the year.

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