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    Sale 7468

    Antique Arms and Armour Including Property sold by The Art Institute of Chicago, From The George F. Harding Collection of Arms and Armour, and The Property of Various Owners

    London

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    20 September 2007

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    • A GERMAN BREAST-PLATE OF GLOBO
    Lot 9

    A GERMAN BREAST-PLATE OF GLOBOSE TYPE, DECORATED WITH LATER ETCHING OF A KNIGHT AND CHRIST CRUCIFIED

    CIRCA 1530-40

    Price realised

    GBP 3,000

    Estimate

    GBP 3,000 - GBP 4,000

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    A GERMAN BREAST-PLATE OF GLOBOSE TYPE, DECORATED WITH LATER ETCHING OF A KNIGHT AND CHRIST CRUCIFIED
    circa 1530-40
    Struck with Nuremberg mark, of slightly boxed form with very low ridges running down the centre and from the middle point of the arm openings to the base, with strong angular turns at the neck and arm gussets, the latter moving on sliding rivets, recessed subsidiary borders, original waist plate carrying two of the original skirt lames, the third associated, all shaped in continuation of the boxed form of the breast, decorated with later Crucifixion Scene involving a kneeling Knight, and fitted with later folding lance-rest.
    16¾in (42.5cm)

    Provenance

    Franz Joseph Wirtz, J.M.Heberle, Cologne, May 24-26, 1897, lot 702
    Henry Griffith Keasbey, American Art Association, New York, November 27-28, 1925, lot 124

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