A COMPOSITE SOUTH GERMAN CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR, PARTLY NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1540 comprising modern close helmet with rounded one piece skull rising to a low medial ridge, and bellows visor and bevor attached to it by common pivots with radially incised heads, the visor stepped beneath its centrally-divided vision-slit and pierced with twelve horizontal ventilation-slots arranged in three rows, both the visor and the bevor secured at the right by spring-catches, and the lower edge of the helmet formed with an internally-hollowed rim to lock over the upper edge of the collar, the latter formed of four lames front and rear (composite and reworked at it upper edge and elsewhere), heavy breastptate of rounded form, boxed medially and at each side, fitted at each armpit with moveable gussets, at the right of the chest with a detachable folding lance-rest (restored) and within its lower edge with a waist-lame flanged outwards to receive a fauld of three lames and pendent tassets each of four lames (associated and slightly reworked), square-topped backplate fitted at its lower edge with a waist-lame flanged outwards to receive a culet of two lames (composite and reworked), pair of slightly asymmetrical pauldrons, the front of the right cut away more markedly at the armpit than the left, each formed of seven lames of which the third bears on its front an upstanding haute-piece, that of the left taller than the right (both restored), modern right besague of circular form rising at its centre to a conical boss, pair of fully articulated tubular vambraces each fitted at its upper end with a turner of three lames, articulated on sliding-rivets, and at its elbow with a winged bracelet couter of three lames, pair of gauntlets each formed of a short, flared and straight-ended cuff with a separate hinged inner plate, five metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-plate decorated with a roped transverse rib, five finger-lames (those of the left restored) and a hinged thumb-defence (the right lacking its distal three scales), the cuffs of the left and right gauntlets respectively marked with two and three dots and both bearing the quality-control mark of the city of Nuremberg (that of the right spurious and etched), pair of cuisses (partly restored using old plates), each formed of a short gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its upper end with two tall detachable extension-plates, and at its lower end with a winged poleyn of four lames, and a pair of modern full-length tubular greaves each cut with a slit to accommodate a spur at the heel, and fitted at the front with a square-toed sabaton of eight lames, the main edges of the armour formed with boldly-roped inward turns, for the most part accompanied by recessed borders, some of which are divided into two by a raised rib (the surface of the armour artificially pitted overall to better match the disparate elements and their restorations) See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Dr Wilhelm Treubner, Karlsruhe Duveen Borthers, New York, 18 January 1928, no.IV JWHA Inv. No. 426 Exhibited Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1928 - 1930 WGHB TV, Boston, Massachusetts, 10 - 12 January 1968
A COMPOSITE SOUTH GERMAN CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR, PARTLY NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1540 comprising modern close helmet with rounded one piece skull rising to a low medial ridge, and bellows visor and bevor attached to it by common pivots with radially incised heads, the visor stepped beneath its centrally-divided vision-slit and pierced with twelve horizontal ventilation-slots arranged in three rows, both the visor and the bevor secured at the right by spring-catches, and the lower edge of the helmet formed with an internally-hollowed rim to lock over the upper edge of the collar, the latter formed of four lames front and rear (composite and reworked at it upper edge and elsewhere), heavy breastptate of rounded form, boxed medially and at each side, fitted at each armpit with moveable gussets, at the right of the chest with a detachable folding lance-rest (restored) and within its lower edge with a waist-lame flanged outwards to receive a fauld of three lames and pendent tassets each of four lames (associated and slightly reworked), square-topped backplate fitted at its lower edge with a waist-lame flanged outwards to receive a culet of two lames (composite and reworked), pair of slightly asymmetrical pauldrons, the front of the right cut away more markedly at the armpit than the left, each formed of seven lames of which the third bears on its front an upstanding haute-piece, that of the left taller than the right (both restored), modern right besague of circular form rising at its centre to a conical boss, pair of fully articulated tubular vambraces each fitted at its upper end with a turner of three lames, articulated on sliding-rivets, and at its elbow with a winged bracelet couter of three lames, pair of gauntlets each formed of a short, flared and straight-ended cuff with a separate hinged inner plate, five metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-plate decorated with a roped transverse rib, five finger-lames (those of the left restored) and a hinged thumb-defence (the right lacking its distal three scales), the cuffs of the left and right gauntlets respectively marked with two and three dots and both bearing the quality-control mark of the city of Nuremberg (that of the right spurious and etched), pair of cuisses (partly restored using old plates), each formed of a short gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its upper end with two tall detachable extension-plates, and at its lower end with a winged poleyn of four lames, and a pair of modern full-length tubular greaves each cut with a slit to accommodate a spur at the heel, and fitted at the front with a square-toed sabaton of eight lames, the main edges of the armour formed with boldly-roped inward turns, for the most part accompanied by recessed borders, some of which are divided into two by a raised rib (the surface of the armour artificially pitted overall to better match the disparate elements and their restorations) See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Dr Wilhelm Treubner, Karlsruhe Duveen Borthers, New York, 18 January 1928, no.IV JWHA Inv. No. 426 Exhibited Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1928 - 1930 WGHB TV, Boston, Massachusetts, 10 - 12 January 1968
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