Publication Date
Before 1492 AD
Publication Place
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Art History Museum
Subject
Natural color calf leather, colorful silk embroidery
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الارتفاع : 89 سم ، العرض : 75 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
HJRK_C_195
Record ID
object;EPM;at;Mus22;25;ar
Library Location
Art History Museum
Date
Before 1492 AD
Notes
The shape of this shield is derived from Moorish models in North Africa. The name of this gear, which takes the shape of a kidney, also gives the name of an oval gear common in the West (tarch). The adargah is covered with colorful silk embroidery, which means that its owner is of high rank. The shield now in Vienna may have entered the Habsburg collections when Joanna I (1479-1555 AD) married Philip I (Philip the Handsome) (1478-1506 AD). In the late sixteenth century, the shield was in the collection of Archduke Ferdinand II (1529-95 9) in Ambras Castle near Innsbruck.
Sample Text
"Support Shield (Adargah)" in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus22;25;ar
