A set of Deccani silver-gilt horse trappings, India, circa 1900

comprising a bridle, three harness fittings and a tail fitting, made up of cloth-backed silver-gilt plaques chased and engraved with scrolling foliage, crescents and rampant lions, the bridle with pendant piece decorated with a face within a crescent moon, the largest fitting comprised of a three-string "necklace" of fish modelled in the round

formerly in the collection of the Nawab of Hyderabad