Gorget
Artist
workshops of Wolf and Peter von Speyer
, or (Germany)
Artist
Wolf Peppinghorn
(Saxony, Germany)
Dateabout 1590–1600
MediumSteel, iron, leather and black paint
Dimensions19 × 31 × 24 cm (7 1/2 × 12 3/16 × 9 7/16 in.), 3 lb, 4 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
MarkingsCrescent moon-shaped stamped mark on frontplate near bottom right edge; punched dot at basal edge of rearplate medial line.
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.1154.2
Description(** Collar) Originally from an almain-collar, once fire-blackened, with the triple-line borders (possibly silver inlay) of the shoulders and arms. It consists of four thick plates each front and rear overlapping upward, the whole hinged and pivoted at the left and locked on the right. The curved, pointed front mainplate is riveted to the rear half at the left top of the shoulder. The rearplate is deep, with rounded corners, and locks under the front plate via a domed stud that engages a keyhole-shaped slot. Both plates have a set of three internal leathers to which are riveted the three narrow, curved neck lames. These are of equal depth over their lengths from the vertical ends. The top set of lames is hinged at the left and snaps together on the right. The upper edge of this lame is finished with a heavy, inward, roped turn; all other edges are unturned, with top edges bevelled. At the upper edge of the rear mainplate shoulders are pairs of modern rivets and leathers for the pauldrons. As indicated, the defense was at one time an 'almain'-collar. The mainplates have been cut back, and also retain the rivets or holes for the spaudler leathers, and have holes for the pivot-hook and pierced lug of the right anterior strap. The collar is decorated to match.
ProvenanceDresden "Rüstkammer" Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony (to 1925) Clarence H. Mackay (Roslyn, L.I.) (his A-31). Purchased by the Armory on 27 July 1939 at Mackay sale, Christie's (London), lot 54 (with shaffron HAM# 2550). Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.
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