Right Cuisse and Poleyn (upper-leg armor)

Artist Antonio dei Seroni (Northern Italian, Milan, active from 1450)

Datemid-1400s

Mediumsteel with modern leather

Dimensions50 × 17 × 12 cm (19 11/16 × 6 11/16 × 4 3/4 in.), 3 lb 4 oz (weight)

ClassificationsArms and Armor

MarkingsUpper lame of right has traces of an "SE" mark closely resembling that of Antonio Seroni (active from about 1450), a partner of the Missaglia family of armorers.

Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection

Terms

Object number2014.798

DescriptionHeavily ground down and repatinated to homogenize with the former composite suit. Cuisse of two vertically-hinged plates and 2 articulating upper frontal plates with arched outturned edge. Mainplate has an angular outward turn at the top. Poleyn of mainplate with large side-wing extending to the mid-rear of leg, plus 2 lames above, 2 lames & terminal lame below. There are patched repairs on the lames just above and below the poleyn mainplate.
ProvenancePurchased by Museum on November 9, 1940 from Jacques Seligmann & Co. (NYC), agents for estate of Clarence H. Mackay. Previously Bashford Dean and National Armory at Lisbon. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.

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