Cantle (Back two piece saddle steels)

Italian, Milan

c. 1575

Medium

Steel with gilding

Classification

Armor

Dimensions

Left: 7 × 33.1 × 18.5 cm (2 3/4 × 13 × 7 1/4 in.); Right: 7 × 32.4 × 19.1 cm (2 3/4 × 12 3/4 × 7 1/2 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Applied Arts of Europe

Credit line

George F. Harding Collection

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Arms and armour
• 1500s
• Orange