Hookah BASE
A pear shaped bottle with removed neck, to make a Hookah base.
Ming dynastie, period Hongzhi (1488-1505).
China, Jindezhen.
Diameter 4,7 cm; Hoogte 20,5 cm.
Compare to a somewhat later bottle Regina Krahl: Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Museum Istanbul II, London 1986, plate 1290 pp 728.
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