- Title
- Leg guard (greave)
(two of two)
- Date Made
- 15th century
- Medium
- Steel with silver inlay and traces of gilding
- Dimensions
- 17 x 6 3/4 in. (43.2 x 17.2 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.73.5.729.8
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Islamic
- Curatorial Notes
This leg guard and a second example (M.73.5.729.7, , not a matched pair) were worn only by a horseman as they protected just the outer sides of his legs; the inner sides would have been pressed against his steed. The inscriptions on both include incomplete and anonymous titulature. Related elements of armor likely made in northwestern Iran in the late fifteenth century include a shirt of mail and plate (M.73.5.729.1) and a helmet (M.73.5.323). It is not possible to know if the elements were ever used together.
- Selected Bibliography
- Çakir Phillip, Filiz. "A Reflection on Armour of Then and Now." In Iranian Art from the Sasanians to the Islamic Republic: Essays in Honour of Linda Komaroff, edited by Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom and Sandra S. Williams. Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
