Armure complète, assemblée avec des pièces... - Lot 203 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Armure complète, assemblée avec des pièces interchangeables pour la joute, en partie vers 1580-90. An Italian full armour, now assembled with exchange pieces for the joust, partly circa 1580-90. Comprising close helmet with one-piece skull rising to a rear swept cabled comb, later plume-holder, the visor and the upper-and lower-bevor all on later pivots, the visor formed with a pointed prow seated flush with the upper edge of the upper bevor and with centrally divided sights, the upper-bevor pierced with a circular group of breathes on the right, and the skull and lower-bevor each fitted with neck-guard of three lames (the lifting-peg, the closure-hooks and the rivets replaced throughout), gorget of four hinged plates front and rear (the lower rear plate replaced), breast-plate of heavy construction formed with a full length medial ridge, embossed with lightly cabled lines below the top, with a prominent turned cabled flange at the top, out turned basal flange, a pair of moveable gussets en suite, folding lance-rest, and later skirt of two lames, back-plate fitted with later extensions at the sides and later skirt of one lame, a pair of short tassets, one incorporating some plates of the period (the other entirely later), the left shoulder fitted with detachable reinforce, buffa da torneo, a pair of full arm defences with large symmetrical pauldrons each embossed with a pair of spiralling volutes, the left pauldron carrying a modern bolt for fitting the reinforce, each with boldly roped turners, tubular vambraces, large bracelet couters (not a pair), the left couter fitted with a large pasguard attached by a modern bolt, guardabraccio, and the left lower-cannon with plain turned edges matching the couter, the right arm with a gauntlet of conventional type, manopolo da lancia, the left arm with a modern jousting gauntlet of characteristic heavy construction, a pair of modern full leg defences, and the armour complete with codpiece: on a purpose-built fabric-covered m