Helmet

Turkish

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 379

The tulip decoration on the bowl suggests that this is an older Ottoman piece, possibly from Turkestan and made in the seventeenth or eighteenth century, which was refurbished in 1781–82 with nielloed silver mounts of typical Caucasian workmanship. The inscriptions suggest a Tartar origin in the Crimea.

Helmet, Steel, silver, niello, Turkish

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