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A PERSIAN CHISELLED AND DAMASCENED STEEL KULAH KHUD, the skull chiselled overall in bas relief with foliage involving gold-damascened crescents above pairs of winged figures, the latter between embossed faces surmounted by damascened rays, and bordered by shaped panels containing silver-damascened verses in Arabic script, fitted with two plume-holders, central spike, and nasal decorated en suite, and with avantail of small butted rings (partly detached from the skull), 19th Century
11½in. high
11½in. high