Bidriware Shield
1700
Physical Qualities
Steel, gold, 19 in. (48.3 cm.) Diam.
Credit Line
Lockwood de Forest Collection
Object Number
1922.2.69
Bidri style; etched gold damascene; 4 bosses
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.
