拍品 31
31
TWO FINE CAVALRYMAN’S LEG GUARDS
TWO FINE CAVALRYMAN’S LEG GUARDS
TWO FINE CAVALRYMAN’S LEG GUARDS
1 更多
TWO FINE CAVALRYMAN’S LEG GUARDS
4 更多
ARMS AND ARMOUR FROM THE COLLECTION OF HOWARD RICKETTS
TWO FINE CAVALRYMAN’S LEG GUARDS

QARA QOYUNLU OR AQ QOYUNLU ANATOLIA OR NORTH-WEST IRAN, 15TH CENTURY

细节
TWO FINE CAVALRYMAN’S LEG GUARDS
QARA QOYUNLU OR AQ QOYUNLU ANATOLIA OR NORTH-WEST IRAN, 15TH CENTURY
One: the primary plate with chevron fluting on the lower half and gently rounded fluting on the upper half, with shallow carving of fine scrolling vine motifs in alternating flutes, the division containing further scrolling vine motifs, the top with partially cut-off inscription against a scrolling vine ground and carved St Irene armoury mark, one side plate flat with en-suite decorative carving, the other flat and unadorned, the latter possibly a later replacement, with riveted mail including numerous butted replacement rings, with partially surviving leather straps; Two: the primary plate with chevron fluting on the lower half and gently rounded fluting on the upper half, the top with with carved St Irene armoury mark within a roundel, a further St Irene armoury mark below, both side plates en-suite, one split halfway, with solid and riveted mail, with partially surviving leather straps
14 5/8in. and 14 1/8in. (37cm. and 36cm.) long
来源
By repute, a noble Venetian family, by 1991 [according to Riyadh publication, p. 17]
出版
Howard Ricketts and David Sulzberger, Islamic Military Heritage, Nine centuries of Islamic arms and armour, Riyadh, 1991, pp. 16-17, nos.41-42
展览
Islamic Military Heritage, Nine centuries of Islamic arms and armour, Riyadh, 1991
刻印
One, partial at top, al-‘izz al-da’im ‘Perpetual Glory’
Two, central, ‘Hasan Jalayir’

荣誉呈献

Phoebe Jowett Smith
Phoebe Jowett Smith Sale Coordinator & Cataloguer
+44 20 7752 3221

拍品专文

Although historically catalogued as arm guards, the unusual raised circles seen here may be articulation for ankles. A very similar piece of armour has historically been installed as a leg guard on an Ottoman rider at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, as photographed by James Mann in 1938 (David Nicolle, “Horse Armour in the Medieval Islamic Middle East”, Arabian Humanities 8, 2017, photograph 23). A pair of late 15th or early 16th century Ottoman leg guards of very similar form are in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (36.25.457 and 1990.229).

The inscription ‘Hasan Jalayir’ on one of the leg guards likely refers to Hasan Buzurg (‘the Great’, d.1356), the founder of the Jalayirid dynasty of Iraq. The inscription appears to be a later attribution contemporary to the object’s entry into the St Irene armoury.

更多来自 伊斯兰与印度世界艺术品包括地毯

查看全部
查看全部