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Lot 62*
A Rare Mail ShirtProbably Mamluk, 15th Century
22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,600 inc. premium
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Probably Mamluk, 15th Century
Probably Mamluk, 15th Century
Formed of a variety of large robust iron rings, some riveted and some solid, incorporating four rings variously incised or punched, probably talismanic, thigh-length and with elbow-length arms, the neck with deep overlap involving ten latten rings, and standing collar (incomplete) incorporating latten rings and partly reinforced by leather thongs, at the back of the neck two applied discs, one of iron and one of latten, the latter of stellate form
81 cm. high
81 cm. high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Dr. John Waldman Collection
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 3 December 1969, lot 211
Exhibited:
Medieval and Renaissance Brass Rubbings, Springfield, Mass., U.S.A., 12 November 1981 - 3 January 1982
The Lines of Battle: Images of War from the 15th to the 20th Centuries, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Centre, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New Jersey, U.S.A., 26 September - 14 December 1997
Offered with a photocopy of a letter from Helmut Nickel, Curator of Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated 25 January 1977, confirming the nationality and date of the shirt








