A RARE EARLY MUGHAL HELMET INDIA, LATE 16TH OR 17TH...

A RARE EARLY MUGHAL HELMET
INDIA, LATE 16TH OR 17TH CENTURY
The domed skull with a riveted steel band, the exterior plain, with four-sided steel point on eight-sided bulbous finial, with mount for nose guard, the aventail of fine riveted mail with small number of replacement links
9in. (20cm.) high excl. mail; 33 5/8in. (85.5cm.) high incl. mail

Provenance
Howard Ricketts and Philippe Missilier, Splendeur des Armes Orientales, Paris, 1988, no.143
Howard Ricketts and David Sulzberger, Islamic Military Heritage, Nine Centuries of Islamic Arms and Armour, Riyadh, 1991, p.48, no. 270

Literature
Splendeur des Armes Orientales, Paris, 1988
Islamic Military Heritage, Nine Centuries of Islamic Arms and Armour, Riyadh, 1991