Gorget
Culture
Northern German
Datemodern
Mediumsteel and leather
Dimensions12 × 31 × 21 cm (4 3/4 × 12 3/16 × 8 1/4 in.), 1 lb (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.79.1.2
ProvenanceHollingworth Magniac collection (England; to 1892)Joseph Duveen (NYC and London)
Oliver H.P. Belmont (NYC and Newport, RI)
Clarence H. Mackay (Roslyn, LI).
Purchased by Museum on November 9, 1940 from Jacques Seligmann & Co. Inc. (NYC), agents for estate of Clarence H. Mackay. Armor was numbered #A-52/302 in the Mackay collection.
Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.
On View
Not on view
Northern German
1540–1560
