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PROBABLY GERMAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Details
A BREAST-PLATE
PROBABLY GERMAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
With heavy main plate rising to a medial ridge, prominent roped turn at the neck, and incised borders of triple lines, movable arm gussets each with roped turn, and single-plate skirt, approx. 15 in. (38 cm.) high
PROBABLY GERMAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
With heavy main plate rising to a medial ridge, prominent roped turn at the neck, and incised borders of triple lines, movable arm gussets each with roped turn, and single-plate skirt, approx. 15 in. (38 cm.) high
Provenance
Fonda, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 29 January 1959, lot 403.
Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 1956.
Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 1956.
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