A QAJAR WATERED-STEEL HELMET AND SHIELD IRAN, 19TH CENTURY The helmet's gold-damascened decoration with embossed radiating anthropomorphic sun, the borders engraved with cusped medallions with felines pouncing on their prey and spraying palmettes on foliated ground, the noseguard finials with birds, the shield decorated with another anthropomorphic sun with gold-damascened rays, the borders with Persian verses in nasta'liq script in medallions on foliated grounds between two bands of floral scrollworks The shield 15 3/8in. (39cm.) diam (2)
A QAJAR WATERED-STEEL HELMET AND SHIELD IRAN, 19TH CENTURY The helmet's gold-damascened decoration with embossed radiating anthropomorphic sun, the borders engraved with cusped medallions with felines pouncing on their prey and spraying palmettes on foliated ground, the noseguard finials with birds, the shield decorated with another anthropomorphic sun with gold-damascened rays, the borders with Persian verses in nasta'liq script in medallions on foliated grounds between two bands of floral scrollworks The shield 15 3/8in. (39cm.) diam (2)
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