Left Tasset
Artist
workshops of Wolf and Peter von Speyer
, or (Germany)
Artist
Wolf Peppinghorn
(Saxony, Germany)
Dateabout 1590–1600
Mediumsteel, iron and leather
Dimensions29 × 27 × 10 cm (11 7/16 × 10 5/8 × 3 15/16 in.), 3 lb 4 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.1175.9
Description5 heavy lames, overlapping upward.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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