TURKEY, LATE 15TH OR 16TH CENTURY

A similar knee guard, acquired at the same time as ours, was recently sold as part of The Philippe Missillier Collection of Islamic and Indian Arms and Armour, Sotheby's London, 29 April 2025, lot 13. A knee guard of similar type, but mounted into mail and armour that would have protected the lower thigh is in the National Museum of Denmark (Eb 34; Kjeld von Folsach et al., Fighting, Hunting, Impressing: Arms and Armour from the Islamic World, Copenhagen, 2021, p.165).