Beschreibung:

AN ENGRAVED STEEL CHAMFRON IRAN OR OTTOMAN ANATOLIA, 16TH CENTURY Formed of a single piece of steel shaped at the eyes and with a narrow flange at the ears, a series of fluted bands edging the ears and eyes and running down the length of the nose, the forehead engraved with a quatrefoil medallion, below that an engraved cartouche inscribed dowlat bad , trefoil palmettes above and below, three further cusped cartouches on the nose, the tip of the nose engraved with a couplet in Persian, St. Irene arsenal mark engraved above the upper medallion, a series of holes for pins around the edges, old repairs, surface slightly corroded 22 ½in. (56.5cm.) long