the cuisse formed of two lames embossed to simulate four, fitted at the outside with a hinged extension-plate, and at its lower end with a poleyn of seven lames overlapping outwards from the shaped fourth decorated on its centrally-puckered wing with a spray of curved flutes contained within an inward turned edge accompanied by a recessed border, and formed at the lower edges of the final two lames with cusps; the lower edges of the tasset-lames similarly formed and pierced at their centres in each case with a pair of holes; and the besagues rising at their respective centres to a conical point and formed peripherally with a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border enclosed to the inside by a narrow groove; the cuisse and poleyns, the right tasset-lame and, to a lesser extent, the besague, showing overall mottled corrosion, the first: 48.5 cm (4)

Provenance

Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.