Tibetan cavalry armor, 18th to 19th century, possible Bhutanese and Nepalese elements, iron, gold, copper alloy, wood, leather, and textile, assembled based on photographs taken in the 1930s and 1940s in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa during the Great Prayer Festival. The photographs showed troops of ceremonial armored cavalry, who wore a standardized set of equipment as stipulated by the central government of Tibet probably from the mid-seventeenth or eighteenth century onward. Met museum.
Caucasian / Circassian flintlock musket, hardwood stock with horn butt and inlaid staghorn details, forearm cap of horn, and massive miquelet lock and button trigger. Three silver bands retain the fine barrel, an exceptional example of pattern-welded damascus steel inlaid with gold at breach and muzzle in Gordian Knot motifs and struck with a gold signature reading, Work of Muhammad Saneh (?) Retains its original ramrod with profiled finial. Late 18th-early 19th century. Overall length 134 cm.
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