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A fine pair of koftgari steel armguards (dastana) India, 19th Century(2) image 1
A fine pair of koftgari steel armguards (dastana) India, 19th Century(2) image 2
Lot 140*

A fine pair of koftgari steel armguards (dastana)
India, 19th Century
(2)

22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A fine pair of koftgari steel armguards (dastana)
India, 19th Century

each of typical form, profusely decorated in gold overlay with floral and foliate interlace, with applied border of palmettes, hinged wrist-plate decorated en suite, lined in purple velvet, the velvet hand defence embroidered with metal-thread and sequins in floral designs
each approx. 46.5 cm. long(2)

Footnotes

Provenance
The Mohammed Khalil Collection.

Published
M. K. Ibrahim, Islamic Arms and Armour, Vol. II, United Arab Emirates, 2022, p. 773, cat. no. 622.

The sumptuous koftgari decoration featured on the present lot marks the armguards as particularly fine examples. For a 17th Century dastana featuring foliate and geometric koftgari decoration, see Robert Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour: A Lifetime's Passion, London, 2013, p. 298, cat. 715.

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