Spoils from the Sultan (part II): Arms and armour captured from the Turks in 1529-1683, in the Military History Museum of Vienna

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By Periklis Deligiannis
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CONTINUED FROM PART I

Ottoman horsetail-standards (credit: Erich Lessing archive)

The saddle of Khan Murat Giray, the Khan of the Crimean Tatars who contributed an army to the Ottomans for the siege of Vienna in 1683.

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Detail of the chichak helmet of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (credit: http://www.tforum.info).

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Helmet of a Janissary.

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A dagger with a highly decorated scabbard.

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An odd combination of an Ottoman chichak-helmet and European armour.

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A collection of Turkish arms and other military items

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Saber with scabbard.

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Captured Ottoman map of the city of Vienna, 1683.

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Battle between Polish hussars and Ottoman cavalrymen over the Turkish Banner, 1683 (by Jozef Brandt, specifically this artwork is kept in the National Museum of Krakow).

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Another view of the chichak of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha.
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Periklis Deligiannis