A Mamluk steel helmet
Egypt or Syria, 14th/ 15th Century
of domed form surmounted by a post finial, with later adjustable noseguard, engraved and decorated to the peak and rim with foliate scrollwork, rosettes to the main body, the camail with steel rings
22.5 cm. diam.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Auctions Imperial, Arms and Armour, 20 March 2011, lot 0170.
The Mohammed Khalil Collection.

Published
M. K. Ibrahim, Islamic Arms and Armour, Vol. I, United Arab Emirates, 2022, p. 291, cat. no. 73.

Helmets from the second half of the fourteenth century were increasingly equipped with mail aventails (camails), providing protection for the lower part of the head and neck. There are unfortunately no representative illustrations of Egyptian or Syrian armour from the mid-fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, but many of the surviving pieces are from these areas. A Mamluk helmet in the Furusiyya Art Foundation Collection of similar domed form to the present lot also features holes to the rim indicating the previous presence of such a protective aventail (see Bashir Mohamed, The Arts of the Muslim Knight, the Furisiyya Art Foundation Collection, 2007, p 316, no. 303).
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