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Portions of an Armor Garniture for Field and Tournament Made for Duke Nikolaus "The Black" Radziwill (1515–1565), Duke of Nesvizh and Olyka, Prince of the Empire, Grand Chancellor and Marshal of Lithuania

Kunz Lochner

ca. 1555; probably repainted and shaffron eye guards restored later

Portions of an Armor Garniture for Field and Tournament Made for Duke Nikolaus "The Black" Radziwill (1515–1565), Duke of Nesvizh and Olyka, Prince of the Empire, Grand Chancellor and Marshal of Lithuania by Kunz Lochner

Medium

Steel, brass, gold, paint, leather, textile (velvet)

Dimensions

crinet plate (14.25.854): L. 13 7/8 in. (35.5 cm); H. 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm); Wt. 9 oz. (261 g); vamplate (14.25.855): D. 8 1/2 in. (33.3 cm); H. 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm); Diam. 13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm); Wt. 3 lb. 3 oz. (1454 g); left pauldron (14.25.856): H. 8 1/2 in. (12.6 cm); W. 12 1/2 in. (31.7 cm); Wt. 1 lb. 10 oz. (730 g); crinet plate (14.25.865): H. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); W. 10 5/8 in. (27 cm); D. 6 5/16 in. (16 cm); Wt. 8 oz. (236 g); right tasset (14.25.881a): H. 6 in. (15.2 cm); W. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm); Wt. 1 lb. 5 oz. (587 g); left tasset (14.25.881b): H. 7 1/2 in. (19 cm); W. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm); Wt. 1 lb. 10 oz. (726 g); shaffron (21.42): H. 23 1/4 in. (59 cm); W. 13 1/4 in. (33.6 cm); Wt. 4 lb. 8 oz. (2034 g)

Classification

Armor for Horse

Culture

German, Nuremberg

Department

Arms and Armor

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913; shaffron (21.42): Rogers Fund, 1921

Accession Number

14.25.854–.856, .865, .881a, b; 21.42

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