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A fine pair of koftgari steel armguards (dastana) India, 19th Century(2)

Item Details

Description

A fine pair of koftgari steel armguards (dastana)
India, 19th Century
each of typical form, profusely decorated in gold overlay with floral and foliate interlace, with applied border of palmettes, hinged wrist-plate decorated en suite, lined in purple velvet, the velvet hand defence embroidered with metal-thread and sequins in floral designs
each approx. 46.5 cm. long(2)
Footnotes:
Provenance
The Mohammed Khalil Collection.

Published
M. K. Ibrahim, Islamic Arms and Armour, Vol. II, United Arab Emirates, 2022, p. 773, cat. no. 622.

The sumptuous koftgari decoration featured on the present lot mark the armguards as particularly fine examples. For a 17th Century dastana featuring foliate and geometric koftgari decoration, see Robert Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour: A Lifetime's Passion, London, 2013, p. 298, cat.
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