‡TWO SPANISH CUISSES, POLEYNS AND GREAVES, EARLY 16TH CENTURY AND LATER

‡TWO SPANISH CUISSES, POLEYNS AND GREAVES, EARLY 16TH CENTURY AND LATER forming a near pair and each consisting of a short, gutter-shaped cuisse boxed in five panels, a winged poleyn of five outward-overlapping lames and a short, medially-ridged demi-greave extending only midway down the shin, the convex upper edge of the cuisse and the inner end of the oblique lower edge of the demi-greave each formed with angular outward turns accompanied by recessed borders, the wing of the medially-keeled main plate of the poleyn embossed with a fan-shaped arrangement of fluting (extensively reworked); and the later greaves, of ankle-length form and composed of a medially-ridged front plate and rear plate joined by hinges at the outside and arched at the base to accommodate a sabaton 47.0 cm; 18 1/2 in the cuisses and poleyns (4) Provenance Sixth Count of Asalto, Guadamur Castle, near Toledo, circa 1887 Ambrose Monell, Tuxedo Park, New York, before 1911 Henry Furmage, London George F. Harding Jr, Chicago, purchased 1927 Transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982, Acc. Nos. 2406 Exhibited The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1911, cat. no. 9. Literature Bashford Dean, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor, New York, 1911, pp. 10-11, plate VII.