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Zand painted shield logo

Persian painted shield

Persian steel shield with fine Qajar style painted dome.
Persian set of wootz armor consisting of helmet, shield and armguard

Persian wootz armor set

Consisting of shield, helmet and arm protector.
Southeast Asian shield logo

Thai wooden shield

Made of lacquered wood, it depicts a Chinese-style tiger.
Sipar logo

Sipar (سپر/सीपर)

Persian word for shield.
Sipar fouladi (wootz shield) logo

Large sipar fouladi (wootz shield)

North Indian shield entirely made of wootz, including its bosses.
Vietnamese rectangular wooden shield logo

Vietnamese wooden shield

Rare type of rectangular wooden shield from Vietnam.
Rare Santali shield logo

Rare Santali shield

Peculiar shield with catching hook, used by the Santali people of Bengal.
unusual-indian-single-boss-shield

Early Indian shield

Made of thick lacquered hide, with a single brass boss
Chinese rattan tiger shield logo

Chinese tiger shield

A large Chinese rattan shield called tengpai, used by special front-line troops.
Qing rattan shield article logo

Qing military rattan shield production

Translation of a page from Qing regulations that describes the production of the Qing military rattan shield.
Signed Chinese rattan shield

Signed Chinese rattan shield

This one has the early, peaked form and is signed by its maker.
A ceremonial Sumatran peurise logo

Ceremonial peurise teumaga

Cast brass shield of a ceremonial type that was used during sword dances in Aceh.
Kurdish kalkan logo

Ottoman Kurdish kalkan

A small, heavily reinforced buckler as used by Ottoman Kurdish infantry.
Indian shield logo

An unusual ḍhāl

A translucent hide shield with gilt brass ornaments. Probably Nepalese of for a Nepalese client.
Dhal shield logo

Ḍhāl (ढाल)

Hindi word for shield.
Chinese tengpai logo

Téngpái (藤牌)

The Chinese rattan shield
Chinese rattan shield logo

Chinese téngpái

The famous tiger faced rattan shield as used by Chinese skirmishers.
Sen Sheng

Sēn shèng (森盛)

A Chinese rattan shield maker from Shanghai.
Vietnamese shield

Khiên (盾)

The Vietnamese word for a circular shield of rattan, much like the téngpái (藤牌) of China.
Indian dhal shield by Bhagvan Khoosal

Indian signed dhal from Gujarat

An interesting Indian dhal, a small shield that was signed by its maker from Gujarat.
Vietnamese rattan shield

Vietnamese rattan shield

Called khiên in Vietnamese.

Making the Chinese rattan shield logo

Making a Chinese rattan shield

Ever since I acquired an antique Chinese tengpai (籐牌) or "rattan shield"&