PROBABLY OTTOMAN, 15TH CENTURY

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A GILT COPPER (TOMBAK) ARMGUARD
PROBABLY OTTOMAN, 15TH CENTURY
Of typical form, with vertical faceted sripes, flaring at the wrist, together with associated wrist plate, the surface pounced with cusped oval panels filled with scrolling floral palmettes divided by cloudband motifs and rosettes, a band of studs around the wrist, smaller studs along each long side, slight rubbing, corrosion and encrustation
15in. (38.1cm.) high

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VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium.

拍品專文

The form of this armguard with its elegant ribbing is identical to two early Ottoman armguards which were shown in Munich in 1910, one from the Königlicher Historisches Museum in Dresden, the other from the Kunsthistorisches Hofmuseum in Vienna (Meisterwerke Muhammedanische Kunst, exhibition catalogue, Munich, 1910, nrs.346 and 347, pl.238). The decoration on this example is less classically Ottoman, showing earlier Chinese influence in the floral designs, and thus probably antedates the other two.