Kulah Khud
Culture
Persian
Date1800s
Mediumsteel, copper, gold, silver and iron
Dimensions28 × 21.6 cm (11 × 8 1/2 in.), 3 lb 4 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.1040
DescriptionSteel. Hemispheric bowl decorated with 6 ogival medallions. Surface pierced to expose copper sheet (possibly tinned inside), held by slightly flattened nails. Interior of medallions & voids decoratively punched; medallions have script embedded in the openwork. Traces of gold koft-gari frame the script, medallions, and top of lower band. Basal band inscribed with alternating cartouches & roundels, filled with silvered Arabic script. Traces of koft-gari in cartouches & roundels. Riveted to left front is conical plume holder; the one formerly to the right has broken off. Riveted at top of skull is conical finial, extending into necked egg-shaped body & quadrangular, tapered spike. Spike base with traces of gold koft-gari, and faces decorated with lattice work in silver koft-gari.
Well-shaped Iron aventail of butted mail attached to holes in lower rim; 33 cm long. Front straight across brow; 1 long triangular dag to each side of face, 2 at rear, and 3 smaller ones in between to L and R rear.
ProvenanceBurghard Steiner (Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY) purchased by John W. Higgins on January 26, 1927 at Walpole Galleries (NY), their no. 25. Given to the Museum on December 26, 1946. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.
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