Public Domain

Bidriware Arm Guard (Dastana)

18th century

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Bidriware Arm Guard (Dastana)

18th century

Physical Qualities Steel, gold, 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm.) L

Credit Line Lockwood de Forest Collection

Object Number 1922.2.68

The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1922; American Art Galleries, New York; Lockwood de Forest purchased in India, probably 1914

Catalogue of the Rare and Valuable Examples of East Indian Persian and Syro-Damascan Art and Curios forming the private collection of the widely known artist and connoisseur Lockwood De Forest, Esq. of New York City, NY: American Art Association, 1922, no. 282.

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Honoré Daumier

Monsieur Cabassol, how can you possibly take up arms after having assisted in three sessions of the Peace Congress. - Precisely, I mount my guard in order to avoid being at war with my sergeant-major.

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