Belle reconstitution d'une armure de bataille,... - Lot 173 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Belle reconstitution d'une armure de bataille, assemblée autour d'une cuirasse et d'un renfort de plastron d'Italie du Nord vers 1480, dans le style d'une armure lombarde conservée dans l'église de S. Maria delle Grazie près de Mantoue. A fine reconstruction of a North Italian late Gothic full armour for the field, built on a cuirass and placate of circa 1480, modelled on a Lombard armour preserved in the church of S. Maria delle Grazie. Comprising armet with one-piece skull drawn-up to a low comb and forming a narrow tail over the nape, struck with a split cross mark and the letter M at the rear, fitted with a deep reinforce over the brow, a pair of cheek-pieces hinged internally over the ears and closed by a stud catch at the chin, the two pieces almost meeting at the rear, pivoted hinged visor of "sparrows' beak" type, fitting over the joint of the cheek-pieces and pierced with breathes on the right, the tail of the skull fitted with a concave disc-guard, and complete with a low wrapper reinforcing the chin, the breast-and back-plates forming a composite cuirass with no provision for a skirt, joined by a modern hinge on the left-hand side and closed by a strap on the right, the breast-plate of strongly globose form with prominent in-turned angular flanges at the neck and arms, fitted five modern staples attaching the lance-rest, the back-plate struck with three contemporary armourers' marks, two involving a split cross (rubbed), the neck and arms with flanged outward turns, and the lower part of the back-plate reconstructed with three plates diminishing in size towards the bottom, the placate, sovrapetto, contoured to fit over the breast-plate, bouched for the lance-rest, flanged at the base, the edges finished flat, with a spurious armourer's mark, the Gothic letter M between a split cross, the lefthand side joined by a hinge to a later lower placate covering the lower part of the back-plate, the two plates closed by a strap on the right and each carrying a late