Right Sabaton

Culturepossibly Italian

Dateportions from the early 1500s

Mediumsteel and brass

Dimensions25.4 × 27.9 × 63.5 cm (10 × 11 × 25 in.), 9 oz (weight)

ClassificationsArms and Armor

Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection

Terms

Object number2014.806.14

DescriptionBoth reproductions, except toe cap and following three lames of right. Do not belong with greaves. Decorated in places to match remainder of harness. Both ankle height. Hinged backplate at outer face, top edge roughly outwardly turned, with embossed lower rib and simple sunken border. Crudely-cut flaring keyhole slot to accommodate spurs. Backplate secured to front half by hole snapping over a peg on inner face. Common articulated foot defense of two downward and four upward overlapping lames. Bracket-cut decorative edges. Central lame and toe cap with embossed divergent sprays of ribbing, bordered with engraved lines. Toe cap with transversely embossed simple sunken border. Some internal patched repairs.
ProvenanceFranz Thill Collection, Vienna (gorget and breastplate, to 1905) S. J. Whawell Frank Gair Macomber, Boston. Helmet: John Long Severance purchase for the Cleveland Museum of Art, exchanged with Bashford Dean (#16) for equestrian armor. Dean acquired the gorget and breastplate from Macomber, having already borrowed and displayed them with the helmet in Metropolitan Museum of Art's 1911 catalogue, #39, pl. XXV). Dean is responsible for the full composed suit, adding his helmet, pauldrons, and Marchat restorations in 1912. Clarence H. Mackay (#A.49-until (?) 1941) Kende Galleries at Gimbel Bros. (1941). Purchased by the Armory on 26 December 1941, from Gimbel Bros./Hammer Galleries (NYC) as suit A-49 of the Mackay estate. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.

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