ID 932213
Lot 98 | A RARE 'GANGA-JAMUNA' SUIT OF MAIL ARMOUR
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
LAHORE, PUNJAB, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Comprising a helmet (khula khud), mail shirt (zereh), mail chausses (pyjama zereh), sword belt and pair of shoes, the koftgari decorated helmet with scalloped cartouches enclosing floral sprays, a band of floral meander against gold ground below, with nose-bar and steel and brass aventail, the shirt using steel and brass rings to create a gold lozenge pattern with copper trim, the chausses decorated with diamond lattice of brass rings
Helmet 21 3/4in. (57cm.) tall including camail; shirt 38in. (81.5cm.) long; chausses 43 1/4in. (110cm.)
Literature
Anton Bartholomew, Fight - Pray - Love, Brussels, 2015
Exhibited
Fight - Pray - Love, Asian Art in Brussels, 10 June - 14 June 2015
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