前臂防护装置 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	前臂防护装置
品名（英）	Forearm Guard
入馆年号	2001年，2001.36
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1375 - 公元 1625
创作地区	原产国: 中国西藏（Country of Origin: Tibet, China）
分类	盔甲附件-手臂和肩膀（Armor Parts-Arms & Shoulders）
尺寸	长 10 英寸 (25.4 厘米); 宽 6 1/8 英寸 (15.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	皮革盔甲在欧洲和亚洲都被广泛使用了好几个世纪。尽管如此，只有少数早期作品从这两种文化中幸存下来。这种防御是来自西藏的一小群密切相关的手臂防御的一部分，所有这些防御似乎都是针对左臂的。尽管这件作品不同寻常，但它与其他类型的西藏物品有几个密切的对比点。铁肋上的装饰与早期一组西藏柳条盾牌上的装饰相似（参考编号2001.55）。穿孔铁制品技术也与博物馆藏马盔甲元件上穿孔和雕刻的铁丝面板（参考编号1997.242a–c）相比较。此外，它的彩绘皮革表面和铁配件与西藏皮革盒子和木制家具上发现的非常相似，其中一些可以追溯到14世纪至16世纪。这种共同的工艺线索最终可能有助于更仔细地确定这些鲜为人知的物品组的时代和来源。
介绍（英）	Leather armor was widely used in both Europe and Asia for many centuries. Despite this, only a handful of early pieces have survived from either culture. This defense is part of a very small group of closely related arm defences from Tibet, all of which appear to have been for the left arm. Unusual as it is, this piece offers several close points of comparison with other types of Tibetan objects. The decoration on the iron ribs is similar to that found on an early group of Tibetan wicker shields (acc. no. 2001.55). The pierced ironwork technique also compares well with that used to produce the pierced and engraved iron-filigree panels on the Museum's Tibetan horse-armor elements (acc. no. 1997.242a–c). In addition, both its painted leather surface and its iron fittings are very similar to those found on Tibetan leather boxes and wooden furniture, some of which have been shown to date from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. This common thread of workmanship may eventually be instrumental in more closely identifying the period and source of these poorly understood groups of objects.