"2 19th Century Indian Bazu Bands, Gilded And Chiseled Decorations"
Pair of Indian Bazu Bands, gold-damascened steel. 19th century Indo-Persian world. 35cm by 13.5cm and 36.5cm by 13cm. The first has a chiseled decoration of horsemen, figures and animals inscribed in mandorlas and half-mandorlas surrounded by gold-damascened borders. The second has a decoration of a large fish, the edge and scales of which are gold-damascened. Wear to the gilding