The exhibition "Treasures of the Ottoman Sultans" will be held in summer in the Kremlin

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The Shield "brill"
 
The Ottoman Empire, XVI century.
Willow wicker, iron, gold, silk thread, rubies, turquoise.
Topkapi Palace Museum, the Armoury collection.

The shield is made of treated wicker fastened together with silk threads cream. Umbon convex shield, made of iron with scratched gold floral patterns and figures of deer, decorated with rubies and turquoise of various sizes. The surface of the shield is decorated with a pattern of red, black and white colors of the four alternating clouds and brace seals with inscriptions in Persian: "Do not fear the enemy, the sword next to the shield, as a shield - a stronghold of heroes, because the shield is like twisting the sun, and each my stick in the response for a hundred lives. "
Typically in the manufacture of Turkish shields round used copper, iron or steel, leather and willow twigs. Panels of wicker is a formal samples.