Lot Essay
The Ageyl/headdress was made for either Alec Guinness as Prince Feisal or Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish, in the film both these leading characters wore the same style of headdress.
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Lawrence Of Arabia
A long coat of scarlet wool elaborately embroidered with a pattern of gilt and black thread, designed by Phyllis Dalton for Prince Feisal's servant; accompanied by a reproduction of Dalton's costume sketch for the coat; an Ageyl/rope headdress of black wool and gilt braid; a North-African Jambaya of white metal decorated with geometric patterns -- 12in. (30.5cm.) long; 1988 -- the costume pieces made for the 1962 Columbia film Lawrence Of Arabia and used in the promotional exhibition of clothing and artefacts, made for and mostly used in the film, which toured the provincial cities of the United Kingdom in conjunction with the release of Lawrence Of Arabia (3)
A long coat of scarlet wool elaborately embroidered with a pattern of gilt and black thread, designed by Phyllis Dalton for Prince Feisal's servant; accompanied by a reproduction of Dalton's costume sketch for the coat; an Ageyl/rope headdress of black wool and gilt braid; a North-African Jambaya of white metal decorated with geometric patterns -- 12in. (30.5cm.) long; 1988 -- the costume pieces made for the 1962 Columbia film Lawrence Of Arabia and used in the promotional exhibition of clothing and artefacts, made for and mostly used in the film, which toured the provincial cities of the United Kingdom in conjunction with the release of Lawrence Of Arabia (3)