A FINE EMBOSSED STEEL FRAGMENT OF ARMOUR

CIRCA 1570-75, PROBABLY PARIS

Details

A FINE EMBOSSED STEEL FRAGMENT OF ARMOUR
Circa 1570-75, probably Paris
Depicting a Classical battle scene involving mounted horsemen with a fortified town in the background, retaining very faint traces of gilding
7½in. x 6¾in.

Provenance

Frédéric Spitzer

Anderson Galleries, New York, 9 January 1929, lot 130 (illustrated)

Leopold Blumka (invoice for $2,000 dated December 1968)

Lot Essay

Part of an element of the incomplete armour in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. no. 50.237.1), formerly in the collections of Antoine Crozat, Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill), Sir Richard Wallace, and Frédéric Spitzer (Spitzer sale, Paris, 10 June 1895, lots 21 and 22). The armour is illustrated in the Spitzer sale catalogue, plate 10, and in F.H. Cripps-Day, A Record of Armour Sales 1881-1924, p. 71, fig. 38

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