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IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
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A QAJAR WATERED-STEEL HELMET AND SHIELD
IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
The helmet's gold-damascened decoration with embossed radiating anthropomorphic sun, the borders engraved with cusped medallions with felines pouncing on their prey and spraying palmettes on foliated ground, the noseguard finials with birds, the shield decorated with another anthropomorphic sun with gold-damascened rays, the borders with Persian verses in nasta'liq script in medallions on foliated grounds between two bands of floral scrollworks
The shield 15 3/8in. (39cm.) diam (2)
IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
The helmet's gold-damascened decoration with embossed radiating anthropomorphic sun, the borders engraved with cusped medallions with felines pouncing on their prey and spraying palmettes on foliated ground, the noseguard finials with birds, the shield decorated with another anthropomorphic sun with gold-damascened rays, the borders with Persian verses in nasta'liq script in medallions on foliated grounds between two bands of floral scrollworks
The shield 15 3/8in. (39cm.) diam (2)