About the Artwork
Breastplate with Tassets
ca. 1500-10
Master HT or TH (armorer)
c. 1500 - 1515
German
Unknown
Steel, leather
Overall: 23 × 12 15/16 × 7 1/8 inches, 8.2 pounds (58.4 × 32.9 × 18.1 cm, 3.7 kg) Overall (waist): 12 1/2 inches (31.8 cm)
Arms and Armor
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Welker
56.124.3
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Markings
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Stamped, below rolled neckline at center: armorer's mark, associated with a so-called “Master HT or TH” [T nestled with within a a serif H], along with the guild mark of Landshut [a stamped War Hat]
Provenance
Until 1931, Unknown private collection
July 14 1931, purchased at [Christie's, London] by William Randolph Hearst [1869–1951], Saint Donat's Castle (Llantwitt Major, Wales). 1951, by descent to Hearst's British executors, the National Magazine Company, Ltd. (London, England) 1956, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA).
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Bulletin of the DIA 36, no. 3 (1956-57): p. 69 (ill.).
Pignataro, Megan Reddicks, Livingston Bailin, and Chassica Kirchhoff. “Divesting and Dismembering.” Bulletin of the DIA 97, no. 1 (2023): pp. 66–83.
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Master HT or TH (armorer); German, Breastplate with Tassets, ca. 1500-10, Steel, leather. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Welker, 56.124.3.
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