Field Armor from a Garniture
Item
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Title
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Field Armor from a Garniture
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Rights
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Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts. Fair Use. Image © Worcester Art Museum, The John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection.
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Creator
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Pompeo della Cesa
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Date
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ca. 1595
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Description
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Close-helmet with 2-piece visor. 1-piece skull, with roped medium comb, and brass plume holder. Restored gorget of 2 halves, pivoting on rivet & secured by stud in keyhole-shaped slot. Breastplate of full-bellied "peascod" shape, dipping slightly below waist. Neck & armpit turns roped & without gussets. Single removable skirt lame. Removable lance rest. Restored backplate of short, broad, rounded form. Single removable loin-guard. Straps at waist & buckles at shoulders. Tassets of 6 lames each. Irregular trapezoidal form, rounded lower lame, low medial ridge. Cuisses of 8 plates each, upper 2 articulated. Attached poleyns with small oval side-wing. Pauldrons lightly asymmetrical, of 7 lames each, rounded in appearance. Full, riveted vambraces with closed cowters. Greaves of open form, hinged on outer face, with buckles & straps. Attached restored sabatons; the greaves were actually designed to be worn with mail foot-coverings. Fingered gauntlets with pointed, flared cuffs. Modern spurs with large, 6-pointed rowels.
The whole of the armor is decorated with etchings that were once gilt, with the cartouches enclose one of three basic motifs: a Medusa head with intertwined serpents; a winged lightning bolt design reminiscent of that found on Roman "scuta"; a downturned barbed trident, mounted by a pair of intertwined dolphins.
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Format
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steel, brass, gold, silver, leather, fabric. Weight: 47 lb. 15 oz. 71 x 29 x 15 in
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Publisher
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Worcester Art Museum
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Contributor
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Rieley Lawson
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Identifier
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Worcester Art Museum. 2014.112
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Subject
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steel; iron; brass; armor; gilding; arms and armor;
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Source
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jpeg file. Worcester Art Museum. 11/03/2025
https://worcester.emuseum.com/objects/48015/field-armor-from-a-garniture
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