Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Medium

Steel, gold, leather, copper alloys

Dimensions

Overall H. 73 in. (185.4 cm); Wt. 62 lb. 12 oz. (28.45 kg); reinforcing breastplate (19.131.1h) and lance rest (19.131.1t): combined Wt. 7 lb. 5.3 oz. (3324 g); reinforcing abdominal plate (19.131.1u): Wt. 2 lb. 10.6 oz. (1206 g)

Classification

Armor for Horse and Man

Culture

British, Greenwich

Department

Arms and Armor

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, William H. Riggs Gift and Rogers Fund, 1919

Accession Number

19.131.1a–r, t–w, .2a–f, l