Jin dynasty

Chinese art albums. Collections of artistic works arranged in complete albums.

Chinese Tang Dynasty Cataphract

This illustration was inspired by the archaeology discovery of Lord Qi of Jin Dynasty （金代齐国王墓) in HeiLongJiang province of China. The outfit of this Jin nobleman is very much influenced by Northern Song or Liao Dynasty, in which they had conquered.

They were a legendary unit and the heaviest cavalry to be ever fielded by a Chinese polity. The 铁浮屠, or "Iron Buddha Cavalry" or 铁浮图 "Iron Pagoda Horsemen," were the elite unit of the Jurchen Jin 金 dynasty that was instrumental in the 30 year supremacy of the Jin State. Though they only served for no more than two decades, they were pivotal in no less than a dozen crucial battles and hundreds of skirmishes that secured the Jin realm.