Caparison

This article is about the covering laid over an animal. For the guitar company, see Caparison Guitars. For the caparisoned horse in military funerals, see Riderless horse.
The Dukes of Brittany (left) and Bourbon on caparisoned horses at a tournament fight (1460s), from Le Livre des tournois by Barthélemy d'Eyck

A caparison is a cloth covering laid over a horse or other animal for protection and decoration. In modern times, they are used mainly in parades and for historical reenactments. A similar term is horse-trapper.[1] The word is derived from the Latin caparo, meaning a cape.[2]

Horses

Picador on a caparisoned horse at a bullfight

In antiquity, a "magnificently caparisoned horse" takes a central place in a vision reported in the deutero-canonical text, 2 Maccabees 3:25, which prevents the Seleucid emissary Heliodorus from a planned assault on the Jewish temple treasury in Jerusalem.[3]

In the Middle Ages, caparisons were part of the horse armour known as barding, which was worn during battle and tournaments. They were adopted in the twelfth century in response to conditions of campaigning in the Crusades, where local armies employed archers, both on foot and horse, in large quantities. The covering might not completely protect the horse against the arrows but it could deflect and lessen their damage.

An early depiction of a knight's horse wearing a caparison may be seen on the small Carlton-in-Lindrick knight figurine from the late 12th century. Modern re-enactment tests have shown that a loose caparison protects the horse reasonably well against arrows, especially if combined with a gambeson-like undercloth underneath. Medieval caparisons were frequently embroidered with the coat of arms of the horse's rider.

In 1507, a horse disguised as a unicorn at the tournament of the Wild Knight and the Black Lady in Edinburgh had a caparison of black and white damask lined with canvas.[4] A caparison made of red taffeta for the horse James VI of Scotland in June 1591 may have been intended for a masque performed at Tullibardine Castle.[5] Velvet caparisons lined with buckram were made for Henrietta Maria and her gentlewomen in 1630s.[6]

Domesticated and temple elephants of India

A decorated Indian elephant carrying a howdah during a fair in Jaipur, India
Nettipattam on a Caparison elephant

In the Indian state of Kerala, elephants are decorated during temple festivals. They wear a distinctive golden head covering called a nettipattam, which is often translated into English as an elephant caparison. However, it covers only the head, not the body, as in a horse caparison.

See also

References

  1. ^ Trapper sold at Christie's
  2. ^ "caparison (n.)". Online Etymology Dictionary. Archived from the original on 2015-03-24. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  3. ^ Cline, Eric H. (10 March 2010). Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel. 76: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-02537-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  4. ^ James Balfour Paul, Accounts of the Treasurer, vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1901), p. 257.
  5. ^ Michael Pearce, 'Maskerye Claythis for James VI and Anna of Denmark', Medieval English Theatre 43 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2022), p. 118.
  6. ^ Arthur MacGregor, 'Horsegear, Vehicles and Stable Equipment', Archaeological Journal 153 (1997), pp. 176, 195.


Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Caparison". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.

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