A steel suit of armour including arm-guards and helmet, India, 19th century

the body armour and arm-guards decorated with an arabesque of scrolling roundels issuing foliate forms, bordered by major and minor palmette borders against a scroll ground, the helmet of fluted domed form, lotus flower finial surmounted by a plume holder, nose guard with palmette terminals flanked by further plume holders, decorated with overlaid gold of paired panels of flowering stems emanating from a leafy tuft alternating with paired pendant palmettes the rim with narrow palmette band, chain mail neck-guard

A suit of armour with similar arabesque scrolls is illustrated in Paris 1988, p.139, no.237.