Ⓦ SEVEN ELEMENTS OF EUROPEAN ARMOUR, MID TO LATE 16TH CENTURY AND LATER

Ⓦ SEVEN ELEMENTS OF EUROPEAN ARMOUR, MID TO LATE 16TH CENTURY AND LATER

the first two comprising a pair of terminal plates of a German "Almain" collar of circa 1540-50 shaped to the points of the shoulder and formed at their lower edges with borders etched with asymmetrical scrolling foliage on a blackened ground; the third comprising the uppermost two lames of a South German spaulder of circa 1530, its lower corners shaped to the armpits and its upper edges formed with file-roped inward-turns accompanied by recessed borders (some patching and later holes); the fourth comprising the upper cannon of a right North Italian vambrace of circa 1550-60, cut away at its lower front corner to accommodate the inside of the elbow, and formed with a recessed border at its convex upper edge (lightly patinated); the fifth comprising the lower end of a North Italian left pauldron of circa 1550-1560, cut away at its lower front corner to accommodate the inside of the elbow and formed there with a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border (heavily patinated overall); the sixth comprising a lame from the upper end of a left pauldron of the third quarter of the 16th Century (lightly patinated); and the seventh comprising the rear end of a one-piece couter of circa 1900 (incomplete and patinated overall)

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Property from the David Jeffcoat Collection (1945-2020)

Part proceeds to benefit The Wallace Collection