Stirrup

Cultureprobably Italian

Dateearly 1600s

Mediumcast brass with traces of gilding

Dimensions15.2 × 11.4 × 11.4 cm (6 × 4 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.), 1 lb 10 oz (weight)

ClassificationsArms and Armor

Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection

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Object number2014.1002.1

DescriptionIdentical & mate to 2014.1002.1. Of cast, gilded bronze. Arched frame, sides of which have satyr-like figure supporting decorative quatrefoil & gadrooned urn with tassels & divergent grotesque-head finial, all on finely dotted ground. At apex is box for strap, & on front an urn supported by a pair of figures, with addorsed dolphins above. Tread oval with pair of broadly-spaced bars linking basal sides of frame. Outer faces of front & rear bars of tread engraved with broadly spaced, thin vertical lines; at mid-width on anterior bar notched & bracket-cut, with punched circles & central dots.
ProvenanceFrederic Spitzer Purchased by John W. Higgins from Edmund C. Converse Estate Collection, sale at American Art Association, New York, sale lot no. 294. Given to the Armory on March 21, 1928. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.

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