Tile-plate with soldier

Tile-plate with soldier is held by Royal Court National Museum Complex. Museum description: Stove tile plate glazed in olive green depicting in relief an archer soldier, dressed in a dolman fastened on the chest with braided cord, produced in Transylvania, with high wings on the back and wearing a helmet in the Hungarian fashion on his head, equestrian, facing right, holding a spear with a pennon in his hand. According to studies conducted on medieval clothing (A. Alexianu, 1987), clothing in the style of Polish or Hungarian hussars was fashionable in the Romanian Principalities, including long and variegated feathers like eagle wings, but whose origin was oriental, the purpose being to instill fear. We can assume that the depicted soldier, given the fact that this iconography appears only in Târgoviște, was from the Wallachian army. In the upper part the year 1640, the year the tile was produced, is inscribed in stylized Arabic numerals. According to the excavation author, it was also found in ac The museum record gives measurements length: 21.5 cm; width: 20 cm; thickness: 5 cm. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.