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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
Armorer Kunz Lochner (German, Nuremberg, 1510–1567)
ca. 1555; probably repainted and shaffron eye guards restored later
- Medium
- Steel, brass, gold, paint, leather, textile (velvet)
- Classification
- Armor for Horse
- 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…
- Culture
- German, Nuremberg
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arms and Armor
- Credit line
- Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913; shaffron (21.42): Rogers Fund, 1921
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
