Backplate
Dateabout 1580
Mediumsteel with etching and gilding, iron, brass, leather fragments and modern leather with restorations
Dimensions3 lb 3 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
MarkingsInterior painted number.
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.660.4
DescriptionBackplate is ensuite, formed to the shoulders, with detachable single lame culet held with turning pins. Scalloping as on breastplate. Traces of leather lining remain. Both backplate and culet have been expanded to fit a larger body at the side seams, apparently a working-life alteration. Also en suite, formed to the shoulders. Gilt, hinged adjustable shoulder straps. Brass side posts (modern) for hinges of breastplate. Flange scalloped, fitted with turning-pins for single-lame associated culet (lame). This is recurving, with roped edge. Both mainplate and culet have riveted extension plates at the flanks (likely a working-life alteration).Provenance(Possibly) Herberstein family, Eggenberg Castle (possibly) M. Bachereau (Paris) Mr. Oliver H. P. Belmont (NYC) ex-collection Mr. Clarence H. Mackay (Roslyn, L.I.). Purchased by the Museum through Jacques Seligmann & Co. (NYC), agents for the estate of Clarence H. Mackay on 1 April 1940. Their number A-14/104. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.
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