Body Armour

Titre: En Body Armour; Fr Armure de corps
Créateur/ Créatrice: Unknown
Identifiant: 486B-1874
Lieu de découverte: Iran
Résumé: This set of body armour was purchased by Robert Murdoch Smith from French diplomat Emile Charles Bernay, in Tehran in 1873. In his first bulk acquisition for the South Kensington Museum (today the V&A), Murdoch Smith had bought "a considerable collection" of over 100 examples of metalwork, ceramic, inlaid woodwork and textile from different local sources, including Bernay (France's consul stationed in Tabriz) and four art-dealers: Nasrullah Dellal, Abu'l-Hassan Dellal, Abdul-Husayn and Reza Kashi of Tehran. Many further acquisitions followed in the years 1873-1878 and 1883-1885, most extensively from the French art-dealerJules Richard, long resident in Iran.
Date: 19th century
Source: Middle East Section
Edition: Victoria & Albert Museum
Référence: V&A Collections
Droits: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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