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INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
细节
A FINE PAIR OF GOLD-DAMASCENED STEEL ARMGUARDS (BAZUBANDS)
INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
The watered-steel bazubands of typical form with palmettes and dense scrolling floraldecoration organised in two registers to the borders, with attached padded handguard mail, each with rivetted band of red woven fabric ; the helmet of semi-spherical form, the gold-damascened decoration with swaying palmettes ornate with floral sprays, the nose-guard and pike base with furhter floral motifs, with chain mail neck-guard, the pike lacking
20½in. (52cm.) long (3)
INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
The watered-steel bazubands of typical form with palmettes and dense scrolling floraldecoration organised in two registers to the borders, with attached padded handguard mail, each with rivetted band of red woven fabric ; the helmet of semi-spherical form, the gold-damascened decoration with swaying palmettes ornate with floral sprays, the nose-guard and pike base with furhter floral motifs, with chain mail neck-guard, the pike lacking
20½in. (52cm.) long (3)