AUCTIONS IMPERIAL ARMS & ARMOR NOVEMBER 2023
Lot 192:
Description
Very rarely encountered in the market, a fine Mamluk cuisse or armor for the upper leg. Of characteristic construction, comprising a single well-wrought plate for the knee, set in heavy riveted mail which connects seven rows of steel lames protecting the thigh, and terminating in intersecting angles at the upper edge, the top plate set with a stud for fixing to a belt. The section below the knee terminating in three points protecting the top and sides of the shin and set with a lead seal faintly marked with the Kayi tugra, sigil of the Ottoman sultans and typically inscribed on captured weapons stored in the St. Irene Arsenal, Istanbul. Well worn. Overall length 58cm/ 22.8”. Ex- Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, MA., whence it was cleaned and restored. For similar see the Metropolitan Museum Collection, N.Y., accession number 36.25.55a, b. Condition IV
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