A Persian Steel Kulah Khud, Qajar, Late 19th Century

A Persian Steel Kulah Khud
Qajar, Late 19th Century
With domed skull decorated with lightly silver-damascened cartouche-shaped panels within crescent-shaped roundels en suite, all against a ground of chiselled flowering foliage, the rim bordered by ovoidal and circular panels of lightly silver-damascened Persian verses, fitted with silver-damascened central spike of diamond section, adjustable nasal with shaped finials, two plain plum-holders, and vandyked camail of butted rings (some losses)
27 cm. high