Kulah Khud
Culture
Persian
Datemid 1800s
Mediumiron with gold and silver inlay
Dimensions15 × 18 cm (5 7/8 × 7 1/16 in.), 3 lb 2 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.1038.1
DescriptionIron. Deep hemispherical bowl engraved and inlaid with silver koft-gari, mounted hunters, separated by oval floral sprays. Lower edge border with alternating cartouches & roundels filled with silvered Arabic script on a foliate background. At top is a conical finial held by 3 flattened rivets & decorated with floral & geometric gold koft-gari. 2 conical plume holders, flattened at 1 end into trefoils with floral gold koft-gari & held by 2 rivets to brow. Curved bar nasal held by staple-like bar riveted through its arrow-pointed ends. Nasal ends as flattened 5-petaled flower with floral gold koft-gari. Traces of geometric gold koft-gari visible on nasal faces. Iron aventail of butted mail, having dagged points at sides of face & rear center, with 3 smaller ones each at left and right rear.Bowl is 26 cm high with top spike; aventail is 37 cm.
Label TextLike many 19th-century examples from Asia, the mail on this helmet is butted; the dagged edge is designed to drape over the shoulders.ProvenanceCollection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.
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