Object

92-1-54

From: Asia

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 92-1-54
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Asia
Section Asian
Materials Metal | Leather
Description

Piece of metal with pouchlike decorated leather piece folded across the metal covering most of the top and sides of the metal piece. The leather has silver decorations including a lions-head and two birds on one side and two makaras and a clasp on the other and along the fold a hinged handle also of silver. Leather is attached to the iron with a silver alloy band, decorated with meticulous "thunder pattern" meanders.

Credit Line Received from various sources, pre-1992

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