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Left Arm Elements from a Boy's Armor (Lower Cannon, Couter, Rerebrace)
The collection record classifies this work as arms and armor. It is dated c. 1560 (some modern). Recorded culture or place: Germany, Augsburg.
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- Museum title
- Left Arm Elements from a Boy's Armor (Lower Cannon, Couter, Rerebrace)
- Date
- c. 1560 (some modern)
- Culture / origin
- Germany, Augsburg
- Materials and technique
- etched and lightly embossed steel with traces of gilding, leather
- Dimensions
- Overall: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1916.708
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
These elements once belonged to a full suit of armor that would have been made for a young boy. Decorated with etching, embossing, and gilding, the original suit would have been impressive. Dressing your sons in small custom suits of armor was popular with the wealthiest nobles. They would have been worn for parades and ceremonial occasions and once outgrown were often kept as mementos. Made for the left arm, the rerebrace or upper cannon protected the upper arm, the couter the elbow, and the lower cannon the forearm.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance · CC0
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