Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

An Indo-Persian helmet (khula-khud), steel bowl of anthropomorphic type with embossed eyes and nose, brass nasal bar guide modelled as a moustache (bar missing), fluted top spike rising from a flower-head foot and flanked by curving horns, the surfaces embellished in silver and gold koftgari work with an interlacing pattern of stems and flowerheads, the intervening spaces filled with fine fern-like details, a mail skirt suspended from the rim.