Thomas Del Mar - Armour Sale

141140138AN INDO-PERSIAN PAINTED BOW, 19TH CENTURYof tapering cylindrical form, decorated over its surface withcharacteristic designs including cartouches, triangularpanels and bands of geometric designs all in polychrome(losses); and A CHINESE PAINTED BOW, 19TH CENTURY,applied with horn panels at the front and with shagreenbands on each side of the grip (losses)the first: 193cm; 76in(2)£1000-1200139A PERSIAN COMPOSITE BOW, 19TH CENTURYdecorated throughout with gilt and polychrome borderornament, flowers and foliage (worn, losses)50cm; 19N in£120-180140A RARE TURKISH LEG DEFENCE, EARLY 16TH CENTURYformed of a shaped main plate embossed with a slender ribover the fore-arm and stamped with the mark of theOttoman Court Arsenal at Hagia Eirene, the borders incisedwith linear panels interrupted by conjoined crescents, andretaining two slender side-plates each joined by links ofrivetted mail and decorated en suite (small areas of pittingand wear)40.6cm; 16inThe decoration is notably unusual and retains traces of itsoriginal silver finish. A leg defence of similar form ispreserved in the Nasser D. Khalili collection. See D.Alexander 1992, p.82, no. 35.£1200-1800141AN OTTOMAN BREAST-PLATE, EARLY 16TH CENTURYcomprising a plain circular plate of very low convex form,struck with the mark of the Ottoman Court Arsenal at HagiaEirene, retaining its five outer plates for protecting thelower neck and the arm openings, and each joined to themain plate by later mail of butted links (losses, small chips,areas of pitting)37cm; 14I in high£400-50057