Lance Rest
Culture
Northern German
Date1550–1575
Mediumiron
Dimensions9 × 7 × 11 cm (3 9/16 × 2 3/4 × 4 5/16 in.), 1 lb 1 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.79.1.19
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
1400s–early 1500s
