ANATOLIA, LATE 15TH CENTURY

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AN AQQUYUNLU SILVER INLAID STEEL KNEE-GUARD
ANATOLIA, LATE 15TH CENTURY
Of convex oval form surrounded with mail and incorporating a thigh guard consisting of nine vertical panels of overlapping plates, the mail with a small boss of oval form with an engraved floral motif, the knee-guard with an inlaid inscription within a cusped medallion on a ground of interlacing floral arabesques, the central vertical panel and outermost plates of the thigh guard with engraved reciprocal pattern, two gaps in the mail, arsenal mark of St. Irene
22 x 20in. (55.9 x 50.8cm.) when laid flat

來源

Anon sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 April 1998, lot 50.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium Please note that the lots of Iranian origin are subject to U.S. trade restrictions which currently prohibit the import into the United States. Similar restrictions may apply in other countries.

拍品專文

The inscription, like many on such armour, is not easy to read. Part of it appears to read wa ajal (and the hour of death).

Two similar examples are in the Military Museum in Istanbul (nos. 22582/10 and 16558). Two other related examples are in the Khalili Collection (David Alexander, The Arts of War, The Nasser D,. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Oxford, 1992, pp. 84-5, nos. 36 & 37), while three further examples have been sold at Sotheby's London 11 October 1996, lot 60, and 15 October 2003, lots 74 and 75.