A Steel Archer's Bow Inlaid with Gold Damascene work
A Steel Archer’s Bow Inlaid with Gold Damascene work
Probably Deccani, Southern India
17th / 18th Century
Size : 110.5 cm long – 43½ ins long
Probably Deccani, Southern India
17th / 18th Century
Size : 110.5 cm long – 43½ ins long
Italian writers travelling in the five sultanates of the Deccan in the 15th century wrote of the fabulous splendour of the courts. The ruler of Bidar was seen wearing 'a suit of gold armour inlaid with sapphires, ( and carries ) 3 swords mounted in gold. When he goes out hunting he has a train of 10'000 men on horseback ….. and 200 elephants in gilded armour'.
A Steel Archer's Bow Inlaid with Gold Damascene work
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