Gorget

Culture European

Date1880–1920

Mediumsteel with modern etching, gilding and leather

Dimensions14 × 21.5 × 22 cm (5 1/2 × 8 7/16 × 8 11/16 in.), 1 lb 2 oz (weight)

ClassificationsArms and Armor

Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection

Terms

Object number2014.1157.1

Description2 halves, hinged on left, secured on right by hole snapping over a peg at neck lames. Neck defense of 3 lames, upper with inwardly rolled edges. Borders etched with decorative foliate arabesques & trilobate motif. Upper edge of second lame is cusped at rivets. Mainplate of collar is secured on proper right by a dome-headed stud in a key-hole shaped slot. Edges later etched with typical trophy-filled gilt (modern) bands bordered on either side with roped lines, themselves bordered by a pair of etched lines. Also appears at mid-point and evenly spaced on either side; double helix here in lieu of roped lines. Upper neck opening of plates with etched roping transversely spaced in gaps between vertical decoration, these decorative blocks each bearing a trophy. Modern, but could be recycled from altered old elements.
ProvenanceFelix Joubert of London sold to Clarence H. Mackay in 1922. Purchased by John W. Higgins from Jacques Seligman & Co., NY (agents for Mackay) on 18 July 1939. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.

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