A gold-mounted silver armguard (dastana), India, Deccan or South India, 18th century
Auction Closed
October 26, 12:30 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
the silver body of characteristic form with hinged inner guard and ribbed bud terminal, decorated with applied gilt bands with palmette and floral rosette pendants stamped with a scroll of alternating lotus palmettes and rosettes with dot borders, chainmail comprising gold and silver links attached
49.8cm. length including mail
Please note the body of this lot is silver and not steel as written in the printed catalogue.
This armguard relates to a pair of late seventeenth/early eighteenth-century dastana sold in these rooms 1 May 2019, lot 214. The curved end with ribbed bud terminal indicates that the armguard is of Deccani or South Indian origin. The stylisation of the fleshy palmettes and rosettes on the gold stamped banding has parallels with the ornamentation seen on the figures carved into the mandapa of the Rama temple at Kumbakonam and the Ranganatha temple in Srirangam (Elgood 2004, pp.191 & 193.)
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