Plastron d'armure, belle reconstitution dans... - Lot 27 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Plastron d'armure, belle reconstitution dans le style italien vers 1410. A finely constructed Knightly breast-plate, in the Italian style of circa 1410 Of globose form, with shallow neck and arm-openings with narrow outward turned edges, static large lance-rest on the right-hand side, and riveted V-shaped "lisière d'arrêt" on the upper part. H.: 40.5 cm - W.: 36 cm - Wt.: 5470 g. Only one authentic example is of this type of breast-plate is recorded in a public collection; this being the example preserved in the armoury of the Counts von Trapp at Churburg castle (No.14 in the catalogue, pp. 26-27, pl. XVIb), which is of similar proportions but much lighter in weight (2630 g.). This copy is modelled on the work by Petraiuolo da Missaglia, and as such is of museum quality. See, TRAPP, Oswald Graf, The Armoury of the Castle of Churburg, 1929 & 1995.