Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Fi ea 20 russeted and decorated with an interlaced design chased gold and silver, the border being decorated in a similar manner—German .make, decorated in Spain, late 16th This piece undoubtedly formed part of a harness made for the Archduke Albert, Governor of the Low Countries 1598-1621, a statement founded wpon the fact that the horse armour made ‘for the Archduke exists im the Porte de Hal at Brussels, and is decorated precisely im the same manner TT tis. A bridle-plate, of bright steel finely etched on a black ground, roped border—German, 16th Century; and a bronze prick spur—probably Norman Fink Parr or Rerrers WuHEEL-Lock Pisrous, the stocks of walnut-wood inlaid with buck-horn ; the butts consist of a spherical knot inlaid with a scroll pattern ; the barrels inscribed with the letters ‘‘ H.R.” and the maker's name—Saxony . and plaques of mother-o’-pearl—Italan, 16th Century in gold and silver—17th Uentury ; aud a small knife, with agate handle mounted with silver, and with cuir- - bouilli scabbard decorated with bands running diagonally across the breast, while the decoration upon the back-plate differs in design and runs vertically—ZItulian, late 16th Century This interesting piece is wndoubtedly an armourer’ s model or “maquette,”’ the armourer’s reason for the difference of decorating being to give his patron an alter- native suggestion for treatment stee], decorated with narrow sunk vertical bands, gilt, with roped turnover—’rench, late 16th Century](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30489520_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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