Shield accessory (knuckle pad), Jaipur (Rajasthan), ca. 1700 A cover for the knuckle pad of a shield embroidered with a prince and lady in a palace garden. This embroidered design in fine chain-stitch is closely related to miniature painting probably made by Rajput ladies for their husbands. It is made to protect a warrior's hand inside the shield. This superbly embroidered scene of a prince and a lady in a palace garden is all the more remarkable as it was not intended to be seen by anyone except its owner. It would have been used inside a shield to protect the user's knuckles. Most examples are plain, and often of leather, but some other decorative ones are known. Most of the embroidered ones seem to come from Jaipur in Rajasthan.