Bidriware Helmet
1700
Physical Qualities
Steel, gold, 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm.) H
Credit Line
Lockwood de Forest Collection
Object Number
1922.2.67
Bidri style; etched gold damascene
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1922; American Art Galleries, New York; Lockwood de Forest purchased in India, probably 1914
BMA, "Diamonds in the Rough: Seldom Seen Objects from the BMA's Collection," June 20-August 13, 1989.
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.
