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Breastplate from a body armour
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1737 - 1738 (AH 1150)
- Artist/maker
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Luft ‘Ali (active mid-18th century) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- steel, incised, and inlaid with gold
- Dimensions
- 20.7 x 18 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › steel,
- Technique index
- Object type index
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arms/armour › armour › cuirass
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1997.
- Accession no.
- EA1997.176.d
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Further reading
Allan, James, and Brian Gilmour, Persian Steel: The Tanavoli Collection, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 15 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 135, figs 14 a & b
Location
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- currently in research collection
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