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A Persian Steel Kulah Khud
Qajar, 19th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,750 inc. premium

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A Persian Steel Kulah Khud
Qajar, 19th Century

With domed skull chiselled overall with shaped panels of foliage mostly inhabited by birds within gold-damascened line borders, the six larger panels each inhabited by a Persian horseman, the rim bordered by ovoidal and circular panels, the former enclosing silver-damascened Persian verses in cursive script, the latter chiselled with pairs of birds, all between gold-damascened borders, fitted with two plume-holders, central spike of diamond section and adjustable nasal all decorated en suite, the last with cartouche-shaped terminals each chiselled with a bird, and vandyked camail of small butted rings interrupted by rows and designs of brass rings (some surface rust); together with an Indian char aina of three rectangular plates (one missing) each of shallow convex form, the outer surface with applied brass pierced with a trellised design of cartouches centred on a pierced sun-in-splendour, one plate shaped to fit under the armpit, and brass borders with cusped inner edges, all retaining their brass buckles (light surface rust) (4)
The first 29.5 cm. high

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For a similar kulah khud sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms & Armour..., 18 April 2012, lot 47

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.