Hukkah Base

This cast bronze hukkah-base is in the form of a peacock with spread out feathers. The cavity on its back was for a pipe leading to the coal and tobacco bowl while from the hole on the side must have issued a pipe for smoking.
To avoid mouth to mouth pollution in community smoking, often the smokers brought their own mouthpiece to be inserted into the pipe and removed while passing on the hukkah to the next smoker.