A RARE `GANGA-JAMUNA` SUIT OF MAIL ARMOUR

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£ 40 000
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27.04.2023 10:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Lot 98 | A RARE 'GANGA-JAMUNA' SUIT OF MAIL ARMOUR
A RARE 'GANGA-JAMUNA' SUIT OF MAIL ARMOUR

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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