Gorget
Artist
workshops of Wolf and Peter von Speyer
, or (Germany)
Artist
Wolf Peppinghorn
(Saxony, Germany)
Dateabout 1590–1600
Mediumsteel with modern leather
Dimensions14 × 31 × 24 cm (5 1/2 × 12 3/16 × 9 7/16 in.), 4 lb 3 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
MarkingsCollar has punched dot at center & either end of topmost lame.
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.1175.2
DescriptionGorget: 4 lb. 3 oz., of 3 thick plates each front & rear, the topmost with a heavy, inwardly turned file-roped edge. Front set of lames has low medial ridge full length. The front mainplate is bluntly pointed, and pivoted to the rearplate at the top of the left shoulder, with a keyhole-shaped slot locking over a domed stud at the right. The rearplate is shaped to the tops of the shoulders, with rounded corners. The top edges of all lames are beveled; others are plain and unturned. The neck lames work on three leathers each, and the front and rear halves are hinged at the left of the top lame which locks via a hole and short stud on the right. There are signs of incomplete holes in the basal corners of both main plates.ProvenanceDresden Electoral Armory (possibly) Friedrich August III, King of Saxony Kahlert & Son (Berlin), their no. 87 William R. Hearst Clarence H. MacKay (Roslyn, L. I.) his A-32. Sold with shaffron HAM# 2586.2. Purchased by the Armory from Jacques Seligmann & Co. (NYC), agents for the Mackay estate on 1 April 1940, their A-32/113. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, Janaury 2014.
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