A GILT-COPPER (TOMBAK) HELMET

Starting price
£ 150 000
Auction dateClassic
26.10.2023 10:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
Event location
United Kingdom, London
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ID 1033062
Lot 120 | A GILT-COPPER (TOMBAK) HELMET
A GILT-COPPER (TOMBAK) HELMET

OTTOMAN TURKEY, LATE 16TH OR EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Of conical form, the body hammered from one sheet of metal with pounced decoration, the lower register with split-palmette motifs, the upper register plain with arabesque palmettes, rising to a gilt finial, with a narrow cusped brim and sliding nose-guard secured with a screw, the back and sides with later hinged ear-flaps and neck-guard similarly decorated, the front with tube attachment for feather hackle offset to the left

11 5/8in. (29.5cm.) high excluding attachments





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Private Collection, Western Europe, since 1996

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Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
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