the squat globular body with long slender neck, gently tapered at the rim, with domed lid, decorated with inlaid silver vine leaves issuing grapes and tendrils

In generally good condition, some scratches and very slight abrasion to surface with resulting few minor losses to silver inlay, as viewed.
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This grapevine design is traceable to Chinese porcelain, and is generally recognised as one of the great classic patterns of the early Ming dynasty, subsequently influencing the early Iznik potters making blue and white wares in the 1530s and 1540s, and, as in the present example, still resonating with Indian bidri craftsmen in the eighteenth century. 

A portable bidri huqqa base with an almost identical design is in the Layla S. and Mahmood Diba Collection, New York (Zebrowski 1997, pp.239-241, no.408)