Left Leg Defense (Greave)
Unknown
late 15th–early 16th century · Steel, iron, silver, gold, tin, leather · Arms and Armor
This left leg guard, along with a right leg guard also in the Metropolitan Museum's collection (acc. no. 36.25.457), forms the only known matching pair of mail-and-plate guards of the fifteenth century for the lower legs. Similar floral ornament and Arabic inscriptions also are found on turban helmets.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- late 15th–early 16th century
- Medium
- Steel, iron, silver, gold, tin, leather
- Culture
- Turkish, Istanbul (?)
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1990
