Arms & Armour
Field Armor in Maximilian Style
Arms & Armour
Details
- Author / creator
- Germany, possibly Augsburg
- Object type
- Arms & armour
- Date or period
- c. 1510–15
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 170.2 cm
- Place of origin
- Germany
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Ashcombe City Council acquisitions budget, 2012
- Category
- Armour
- Armourer's / maker's marks
- Augsburg pine-cone mark
About this object
Most of the elements of this armor were made together, forming a single suit. The lower legs contain some modern restorations. The helmet is believed to be the work of the esteemed Augsburg armorer, Lorenz Helmschmied, who was active at the Habsburg, Mantua, and Urbino courts between 1467 and his death in 1515.
Materials and technique
Fluted steel with leather straps
