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Lot 159

An inscribed steel Helmet
probably Safavid Persia, dated AH 1142/ AD 1729

8 April 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£8,000 - £12,000

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An inscribed steel Helmet
probably Safavid Persia, dated AH 1142/ AD 1729

of domed form surmounted by multifaceted finial base, with applied radial steel bands running to the rim engraved with diagonal lines and terminating in mihrabs, the front of the dome with lobed inscription-filled cartouche, the rim engraved with a series of inscription-filled cartouches, with riveted-link chain mail
20.5 cm. diam.

Footnotes

Inscriptions: around the rim, Qur'an, chapters XII (Yusif), part of verse 64; LXI (al-fath), part of verse 13, followed by a prayer; in the cartouche on the dome, finely incised, but mostly worn, Qur'an, chapter II (al-baqara), verses 255 and 257, followed by invocations to God as Ya hafiz ya hafiz ya rahman ya Rahim, "O The Preserver! O The Guardian! O The Compassionate! O The Merciful!", ending with, safar al-muzaffar AH 1142, "August-September AD 1729".

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