A Steel Shield, North India, 19th Century
Auction Closed
April 29, 12:32 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
of domed circular form, extensively and very finely overlaid with gold in a spiral vegetal design, the bosses overlaid en-suite, padded and lined with red velvet, with two original red velvet-covered leather arm straps
45.5cm.
Philippe Missillier Collection no.65C
Elliot and Snowden Ltd, Autumn Exhibition of Arms and Armour, London, 1974, no.6
H. Ricketts and P. Missillier, Splendeur des Armes Orientales, Paris: Acte-Expo, 1988, pp.140-1, no.241
Syed Zafar Haider, Islamic Arms and Armour of Muslim India, Lahore, 1991
The style of gold overlaid decoration is similar to metalwork made in the Punjab in the late nineteenth century, in particular that of Sialkot in the 1880s including a casket now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. no.IS.2411:1-1883; Susan Stronge (editor), The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms, London: V&A Publications, 1999, p.88, fig.97).
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