A Mughal gilt glass Huqqa Base -  India, 18th Century -  of bell-shaped form, with ring to neck rising to slightly widening mouth, the clear glass with few bubbles, the whole gilt-decorated with moulded decoration in a chequered design of alternating raised squares and punched ovals, a band of punched ovals to base, upper shoulder and neck, a band of carved gilt-decorated foliage to upper shoulder, a band of alternating squares to neck  18 cm. high