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Description: | Pair of gauntlets made of finely damascended steel with rich gold borders with a pipel flower motif. The gloves are made of fine chain mail lined with velvet. The gauntlets are held in place with green knitted straps, and the sides of the gloves are trimmed with the same green knitted fabric.
According to Egerton the gauntlets belonged to "Kurruck Singh". This may have been Khurruck Singh, a disciple of Bhai Maharaj Singh.
Technique: chain mail
Technique: damascened
Material: steel
Material: gold
Material: velvet
Gauntlets, made in Lahore, Pakistan before 1855.
Collected by Earl Egerton Tatton.
gauntlet by unknown, before 1855, (1910.15.9). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.24989 | Go to resource |
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