A SET OF FOUR IRON SHIELD BOSSES WITH KOFTGARI DESIGNS, INDIA, MID-19TH CENTURY |

each profusely decorated in full with fine koftgari foliate work 

Fragmentary, two missing central nail for attaching originally, most of the koftgari work intact, with few missing sections, some oxidisation to steel particularly noticeable to interior, as viewed.
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These four shield bosses would have once rested on the centre of either a steel or leather shield. See R. Elgood, Arms & Armour at the Jaipur Court: The Royal Collection, Niyogi Books, New Delhi, 2015, pp.164-173 for shield with these types of bosses.