Rare armure de trois-quarts pour le combat... - Lot 109 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Rare armure de trois-quarts pour le combat à cheval, par Anton et Hans Hörburger d'Innsbruck, quasiment homogène, vers 1561-65. A rare light cavalry three-quarter armour by Anton and Hans Hörburger of Innsbruck, comprehensively homogenous, circa 1561-65. Comprising closed burgonet of robust construction, with one-piece skull drawn-up to a cable comb swept to the rear of the apex, the fall and chinpiece each moving on common pivots, the former engraved with double linear bands and punched and scalloped along the upper edge and around the pivot arms, the leading edge turned and roped and the peak impaled by a convex nasal-bar of triangular section locking into the chinpiece, the latter flared upwards over the cheeks and cut-out at the mouth, the edges of the face-opening unusually fitted on the inside with thick reinforcing bars following the contour of the opening, the chin coming to a strong point and locked by a spring-catch on the right, neckguard of two articulated lames front and rear, the inner edges engraved, punched and scalloped en suite with the fall, the lower lames locked by a keyhole and stud catch left and right, and studded with domed iron lining rivets throughout, gorget of three lames front and rear, hinged on the left and closed by a stud and a sliding catch on the right, the upper plates turned and roped, the lower plates engraved and scalloped along the subsidiary edges and over the shoulders, the lower lame struck with the armourers's initials H H for Hans Hörburger, and carrying a pair of light spaulders of five lames moving on internal leathers and sliding rivets (achselkragen), breast-plate formed with medial ridge drawn-up to a pronounced keel at a point below the middle, the upper edge with flanged roped turn, struck with the armourers initials A. H for Anton Hörburger, the arm-openings engraved, punched and scalloped around the hinges and fitted with movable gussets each with cabled flanged edge, and the base formed with a short flange carr