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Lot 48*
An Indian Mail And Plate ShirtDeccani, 17th Century
20 April 2011, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £660 inc. premium
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Deccani, 17th Century
Deccani, 17th Century
Of alternate rows of riveted and solid iron rings of varying degrees of thickness (some losses and repairs), comprising a long-sleeved thigh-length shirt, open up the front and with five rows of rectangular laminated plates at the back each with cusped lower edge, and at the front four curved rectangular plates flanked by narrower plates under the armpits, each of the large plates carrying transverse riveted bars each with floret-shaped finial (two incomplete) and loop (two missing) for fastening laces (some surface rust and pitting)
98 cm. long
98 cm. long
Footnotes
Almost certainly one of a large group of similar shirts, of varying degrees of quality, that were captured by Anup Singh, Maharajah of Bikaner, in Rajasthan when, as General in the army of the Emperor Aurangze, he defeated the last defender of the Adil-Shah dynasty at Bijapur at the Siege of the Adoni Fortress in 1689








