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Culture
European
Date1800s
Mediumsteel and brass with leather
Dimensions12 cm (4 3/4 in.), 6 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.806.17
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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