Armure noire et blanche complète de reître,... - Lot 219 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Armure noire et blanche complète de reître, dans le style allemand vers 1560, début XXe siècle. A German black-and-white light cavalry full armour in the style of circa 1560, early 20th century. Comprising burgonet formed with a separate pointed peak and embossed with raised bands over the skull, hinged cheek-pieces each embossed with a rosette, neckguard of one lame, turned cabled edges and struck with a spurious Vienna arsenal mark, fitted with detachable buffe including two falling lames pierced with vertical slotted breathes, neck-guard, and attaching pivots left and right, gorget of three lames front and rear, hinged on the left and turned and roped at the neck, breastplate formed with a medial ridge drawn-up to a pronounced keel, boldly turned and roped along the top edge and at the arm-gussets, the latter moving on sliding rivets, and fitted with skirt of three lames carrying a pair of knee-length tassets, matching back-plate with skirt of two lames, the breast-plate and the back-plate each struck with a spurious Vienna arsenal mark, articulated full arm defences including large symmetrical spalders and vambraces moving on turners, a pair of mitten-gauntlets, full leg defences including two-piece cuisses, winged poleyns, hinged greaves and "bear-paw" sabatons, decorated throughout with raised embossed bands, the borders studded with lining rivets, and the edges turned and roped: on a purpose-built fabric-covered mannequin. H.: 178 cm. Literature: MOWBRAY, Andrew E., Arms + Armor from the atelier of Ernst Schmidt Munich, 1967, the published work reproducing the catalogue of Ernst Schmidt circa 1910, pp.90-91, pl.53. Ernst Schmidt established his business in the late 1870's in Munich and was actively engaged there until circa 1930. He employed notable armourers of the day including Lorenz Kilian and Leonhard Hugel, and the present armour, which is included in Schmidt's catalogue of 1910, is among the higher quality pieces made under the direction of Kilian who