Lot Essay
The inscriptions contained within cartouches around the base of the helmet are invocations to the Twelve Imams and Fatima.
PERSIA, DATED AH 1088/1677-8 AD
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A FINE SAFAVID STEEL HELMET
PERSIA, DATED AH 1088/1677-8 AD
Of rounded conical form, divided into fourteen radiating sections from the spike, engraved around the rim with cartouches containing thuluth inscriptions, similarly engraved inscriptions on four-lobed nose piece, sura cx (al-nasir) inlaid in gold thuluth around the spike, two attachments for feathers either side of nose-piece, one broken,
10½in. (26.6cm.) high
PERSIA, DATED AH 1088/1677-8 AD
Of rounded conical form, divided into fourteen radiating sections from the spike, engraved around the rim with cartouches containing thuluth inscriptions, similarly engraved inscriptions on four-lobed nose piece, sura cx (al-nasir) inlaid in gold thuluth around the spike, two attachments for feathers either side of nose-piece, one broken,
10½in. (26.6cm.) high