Armure complète pour le combat à pied, composée... - Lot 35 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Armure complète pour le combat à pied, composée de rares éléments allemands et italiens du Nord pour l'exportation, alla tedesca, en partie vers 1480-90. A full Gothic foot armour assembled on a foundation of rare elements, both German and North Italian export, alla tedesca, partly circa 1480-90. Including a finely formed breast-plate, North Italian, in the German fashion, of two-part overlapping construction joined by four rivets, the upper plate with narrow raised outward turns at the neck and arm-holes, embossed with an inverted triangular panel below the top and the arm-holes bordered by double flutes, the lower plate triangular, recessed in the middle and embossed with a central ridge over most of its length, and the lower edge flanged outwards and carrying a composed skirt of three lames, German back-plate constructed of three articulated plates each embossed with a pair of flutes radiating and broadening from the basal flange, the upper plate with slightly raised borders around the arm-holes, the outer edges not turned, the upper two plates cusped along the subsidiary edges and the lower plate carrying a skirt of three lames embossed with a central fan of flutes (the middle plate of the back-plate associated, the upper and the lower plates of the skirt 19th century), a pair of full arm defences (composed, some plates 19th century) each with light spaulders embossed with a group of four flutes radiating over the upper two plates, the lower plate embossed with a diagonal arrangement of four flutes over the rear plane and embossed with a pair of flutes along the edge of the elbow-opening, the couters also bordered with pairs of flutes together with a broader pair embossed across the middle, with pairs of hinged part-fluted plates forming the lowe-cannons, their edges with angular turns, and a pair of gauntlets in the German High Gothic style, embossed and fluted, the subsidiary edges cut with fretted ornament, a pair of full leg defences, the cuisses of four-par