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拍品专文
The plates of this body armour show a remarkable resemblance to a shirt of mail and plate in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (36.25.54; David Alexander, Islamic Arms and Armor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2015, pp.30-1, no.6). That shirt, purchased by George Cameron Stone from Dikran Kelekian in the early 20th century, shares with the present shirt its arrangement of calligraphic inscriptions and the form of its cartouches. It seems likely that both armours were made in the same workshop, and may have formed part of the same commission. Another shirt of this design is in the Khalili Collection, London (MTW 1158; David Alexander, The Arts of War, London,1992, pp.68-9, no.26).
Despite a skilled calligraphic hand, the inscriptions prove hard to decipher. A.S. Melikian-Chirvani raised the possibility that such inscriptions evoke rather than spell out specific benedictory phrases, and would have had talismanic purposes (A.S. Melikian-Chirvani, Victoria and Albert Museum: Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, 8-18th Centuries, London, 1982, pp.163-8).
Despite a skilled calligraphic hand, the inscriptions prove hard to decipher. A.S. Melikian-Chirvani raised the possibility that such inscriptions evoke rather than spell out specific benedictory phrases, and would have had talismanic purposes (A.S. Melikian-Chirvani, Victoria and Albert Museum: Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, 8-18th Centuries, London, 1982, pp.163-8).