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# Huqqa base

A heavily cast metal huqqa base, spherical, with a broad central frieze of vertical, rounded grooving. The bottom is undecorated; at the top is a moulded collar of overlapping lotus leaves, their tips curling upwards. The neck is low and circular.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1600–1699 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-23-1986](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-23-1986) · Pramāṇa
