A cut glass huqqa base, probably London...
A cut glass huqqa base, probably London for the Indian market, circa 1820-30, of bell-shape form, on a flat base with high shoulder and slightly everted mouth, 19cm. high The export market for English cut lead glass in the late 18th century and the first half of the 19th was huge. As early as 1752, the London glasscutter and retailer Jerome Johnson was advertising 'Turkish and Indian Fashions, Hubble-Bubbles, Springel Glasses for Exportation ...'. This trade was later taken up by John Blades o
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A cut glass huqqa base, probably London for the Indian market, circa 1820-30, of bell-shape form, on a flat base with high shoulder and slightly everted mouth, 19cm. high The export market for English cut lead glass in the late 18th century and the first half of the 19th was huge. As early as 1752, the London glasscutter and retailer Jerome Johnson was advertising 'Turkish and Indian Fashions, Hubble-Bubbles, Springel Glasses for Exportation ...'. This trade was later taken up by John Blades o
