. Chinese clay figures. Sculpture -- China; Arms and armor, Chinese; China -- Antiquities. 312 Chinese Clay Figures of i 6 2 i , where no description of them, however, is given. The armor parts for the croup, neck, breast, and trunk, consist of plate mail; they represent the tradition of the Ming period, and may be identical with those of the Yuan. It is not known to me whether horse armature was still employed under the Manchu dynasty. Fig. 55 is here inserted after Cibot; from what Chinese source this illustration is derived I do not know. It is. Fig. 55. Chinese Sketch of Caparisoned Horse
. Chinese clay figures. Sculpture -- China; Arms and armor, Chinese; China -- Antiquities. 312 Chinese Clay Figures of i 6 2 i , where no description of them, however, is given. The armor parts for the croup, neck, breast, and trunk, consist of plate mail; they represent the tradition of the Ming period, and may be identical with those of the Yuan. It is not known to me whether horse armature was still employed under the Manchu dynasty. Fig. 55 is here inserted after Cibot; from what Chinese source this illustration is derived I do not know. It is. Fig. 55. Chinese Sketch of Caparisoned Horse (from L. P. Cibot, Lettre sur les caracteres chinois, Brussels, 1773). interesting as showing a horse with complete equipment, — a facial mask or frontal with chanfrin of scale armor, neck and shoulder guards of plate mail, and a chabraque enveloping the trunk. From what has been set forth above in regard to the relations be- tween Iran and China, it appears also that Chinese horse mail might have been influenced from the same direction. This influence is very probable; but the discussion of this matter may be left for the present, as it is preferable to wait until a thorough investigation of Iranian horse mail has been made by a competent specialist; ample material for such study is particularly furnished by the Persian 1 In an illuminated manuscript of the Shah-nameh preserved in the Royal Li- brary of Munich, and representing the costume and arms of the Persians in the seventeenth century, according to Egerton, the combatants generally wear conical helmets with solid guards over the neck and ears. The horses as well as their riders have a complete covering of mail with alternate rows of gold and silver scales (W. Egerton, 111. Handbook of Indian Arms, p. 142). In ancient India, elephants and horses were protected by armor (G. Oppert, On the Weapons, Army Organization, and Political Maxims of the Ancient Hindus, p. 8, Madras, 1880). The Chinese. Please note tha
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