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Auction archive: Lot number 77

A Composite North Italian (Milanese) Half-Armour

Auction 19.07.2001
19 Jul 2001
Estimate
£8,000 - £10,000
ca. US$11,313 - US$14,141
Price realised:
£16,450
ca. US$23,263
Auction archive: Lot number 77

A Composite North Italian (Milanese) Half-Armour

Auction 19.07.2001
19 Jul 2001
Estimate
£8,000 - £10,000
ca. US$11,313 - US$14,141
Price realised:
£16,450
ca. US$23,263
Beschreibung:

A Composite North Italian (Milanese) Half-Armour Comprehensively late 16th/early 17th Century Comprising heavy close-helmet for the tilt (slight damage, from use in the tournament?) with one-piece skull with low comb and shield-shaped plume-holder, visor with single stepped sight with central division, prow-shaped upper-bevor (associated) pierced with small ventilation slots on the right, lower-bevor shaped to the chin, and steel strap and turning-pin fastenings, the lower edge with a hollow flange etched with roping, for the top of the gorget, the latter of a single deep main plate and a single neck-plate at front and rear, the top with turned border, cuirass comprising breast-plate of late peasecod form, and back-plate with lower flange, tassets of five plates each, pauldrons of seven plates flanked by a turning joint to the closed vambraces with heart-shaped cowters, and fingered gauntlets (thumb-plates missing, fingers replaced) with bell-shaped pointed cuffs, etched throughout in the so-called 'Pisan' manner with bands containing strapwork and Classical figures in oval cartouches, releathered throughout (the etching and gilding apparently refreshed or of later date, apart from that on most of the helmet): on padded wooden dummy with carved wooden legs (one wormed) and shoes, and on wooden plinth

Auction archive: Lot number 77
Auction:
Datum:
19 Jul 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

A Composite North Italian (Milanese) Half-Armour Comprehensively late 16th/early 17th Century Comprising heavy close-helmet for the tilt (slight damage, from use in the tournament?) with one-piece skull with low comb and shield-shaped plume-holder, visor with single stepped sight with central division, prow-shaped upper-bevor (associated) pierced with small ventilation slots on the right, lower-bevor shaped to the chin, and steel strap and turning-pin fastenings, the lower edge with a hollow flange etched with roping, for the top of the gorget, the latter of a single deep main plate and a single neck-plate at front and rear, the top with turned border, cuirass comprising breast-plate of late peasecod form, and back-plate with lower flange, tassets of five plates each, pauldrons of seven plates flanked by a turning joint to the closed vambraces with heart-shaped cowters, and fingered gauntlets (thumb-plates missing, fingers replaced) with bell-shaped pointed cuffs, etched throughout in the so-called 'Pisan' manner with bands containing strapwork and Classical figures in oval cartouches, releathered throughout (the etching and gilding apparently refreshed or of later date, apart from that on most of the helmet): on padded wooden dummy with carved wooden legs (one wormed) and shoes, and on wooden plinth

Auction archive: Lot number 77
Auction:
Datum:
19 Jul 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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