Drawing by william alexander, draughtsman of the macartney embassy to china in 1793. Portrait of a qing soldier, an archer, fully uniformed. From the crown of the helmet extends a spear topped with a tassel of dyed horse-hair. The helmet only partially made of iron. The characters on the breast-plate denote the army corps to which he belongs; the box attached to the belt contain arrows heads, bowstrings. The lower part of the bow is enclosed in a sheath. The coat of mail is made from quilted nankeen reinforced with thin plates of metal and surrounded with studs. Image taken from the costume of china, illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings, published in london in 1805. Date: circa 1800.
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