Helmet
18th century (made)
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The helmet was acquired by the Indian Museum at an unspecified date and was transferred to the South Kensington Museum, later renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum, in 1879. It was said in the very brief records that came with the helmet (which had associated feather plumes and retains its original nasal, or nose guard, and mail aventail that protected the neck) to have been taken at the Siege of Seringapatam in 1799, when the British forces defeated Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore in South India. The helmet of watered steel has chiselled decoration that originally had gold overlaid embellishment, now mostly missing.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 4 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Forged steel, decorated with gold kuftkari |
| Brief description | Helmet (top) with two helmet plumes, taken at the siege of Seringapatam in 1799, Mysore, late 18th century. |
| Physical description | Steel helmet (top) with a shallow helmet bowl decorated with floral ornament dividing the bowl into broad segments and a band of floral ornament near the rim in gold kuftkari, surmounted by a quadrangular spike, with a sliding nasal flanked by porte aigrettes. Below the bowl hangs a ventail of fine butted steel and brass mail links with dagged ends. |
| Credit line | Transferred from the India Museum in 1879 |
| Production | Transferred from the India Museum to South Kensington Museum in 1879 |
| Summary | The helmet was acquired by the Indian Museum at an unspecified date and was transferred to the South Kensington Museum, later renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum, in 1879. It was said in the very brief records that came with the helmet (which had associated feather plumes and retains its original nasal, or nose guard, and mail aventail that protected the neck) to have been taken at the Siege of Seringapatam in 1799, when the British forces defeated Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore in South India. The helmet of watered steel has chiselled decoration that originally had gold overlaid embellishment, now mostly missing. |
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| Accession number | 3491:1 to 3/(IS) |
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| Record created | September 29, 2003 |
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