Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A pair of fine miniature armours, 19th century in the 16th century style, each comprising: a close helm with high comb finished with a rope-twist crest and with a ribbed and pierced visor, cuirasses suspending faulds and tassets supplemented by mail skirts, pauldrons, vambraces with rotating joints to the upper cannons and couters with heart-shaped inner guards, gauntlets, cuisses, poleyns, greaves, and square toed sabatons, one armed with a sword and one with a mace; most parts fully articulated, the borders finished with rope twist details and rows of domed brass rivets; each armour mounted on a miniature mannequin with painted face (one naturalistic and one gold) and set on a gilt-wood plinth; all within two later glazed cases; each armour approximately 305 mm high. [2]