“This narghile has an early Qing Dynasty blue-and-white in the middle of this incredibly ornamented hookah,” says Adriana Proser, the museum’s chief curator of Asian art. “It really shows how treasured Chinese porcelains were during the Ottoman Empire.”
It’s an example of the cultural interactions and interconnectivity that the museum has emphasized in completely reconceiving its Asian and Islamic galleries after more than a decade since it last did so, in a new permanent…
