A PERSIAN KULAH KHUD The skull 18 t h Century, perhaps late Safavid , the remaining elements late 18 t h/early 19 t h Century With domed skull of watered steel decorated with a series of twenty chiselled and gilt narrow ribs radiating from the top and terminating in a corresponding series of cartouches, each inscribed with a brief text from a Qur'anic verse on a contrasting damascened ground, a band of flowers and foliage also damascened in gold around the base, fitted with adjustable nasal-bar and three plume-holders each with cartouche-shaped finial chiselled with further Qur'anic script within a close-set chiselled design of scrolling foliage, the base-plate of the spike en suite , and carrying a long aventail of minute iron and brass butted rings forming an elaborate tiered pattern of cartouches and foliage (the skull with small patches of pitting at the rear, the damascening partly rubbed, the mail with small losses). 10¼ i n (26cm)
A PERSIAN KULAH KHUD The skull 18 t h Century, perhaps late Safavid , the remaining elements late 18 t h/early 19 t h Century With domed skull of watered steel decorated with a series of twenty chiselled and gilt narrow ribs radiating from the top and terminating in a corresponding series of cartouches, each inscribed with a brief text from a Qur'anic verse on a contrasting damascened ground, a band of flowers and foliage also damascened in gold around the base, fitted with adjustable nasal-bar and three plume-holders each with cartouche-shaped finial chiselled with further Qur'anic script within a close-set chiselled design of scrolling foliage, the base-plate of the spike en suite , and carrying a long aventail of minute iron and brass butted rings forming an elaborate tiered pattern of cartouches and foliage (the skull with small patches of pitting at the rear, the damascening partly rubbed, the mail with small losses). 10¼ i n (26cm)
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