IRAN, 6-8TH CENTURY

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A BRONZE POST-SASSANIAN HELMET
IRAN, 6-8TH CENTURY
Of circular domed form, the main body left completely plain, the upper with an applied round silver panel with seven bosses and a centrally placed panel rising to a slightly flared point
6¾in. (17.5cm.) high

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. Please note that the lots of Iranian origin are subject to U.S. trade restrictions which currently prohibit the import into the United States. Similar restrictions may apply in other countries.

拍品專文

As recently as 1979 it was thought that "surviving examples of Near and Middle Eastern armour ...... are unknown before the thirteenth century" (Michael Gorelik, "Oriental armour of the Near and Middle East from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries as shown in works of art", in Robert Elgood (ed.), Islamic Arms and Armour, London, 1979, p.31). Research therefore concentrated, as in his article, on trying to reconstruct the history of the development of styles of armour from works of art, particularly miniatures. A Soghdian plate dating to the eighth to ninth centuries depicts helmets with bowed eyebrows, rounded form and upper roundel finial, all features found here in the present example (Gorelik, op.cit, pl.35, p.31). The bowed eyebrows and a central ridge are also found on a helmet of rounded form depicted in the rock carvings of Khusraw II at Taq-i Bustan (H. Russell Robinson, Oriental Armour, London, 1967, fig.11, p.23).