A NORTH ITALIAN CUIRASS, CIRCA 1510 comprising medially-ridged one-piece breastplate with bold angular outward turns at its neck and arm-openings (extensively patched at its upper corners, sides and waist), fitted at its right arm-opening with four vertically-pierced staples and a flat cotter-pin (in each case restored) to attach a sturdy L-shaped lance-rest decorated on its upper surface and front edge with diagonal incised lines and bearing on its underside a later sheet-metal reinforce, and the breastplate further fitted at its flanged lower edge, by means of a pair of turning-pins a detachable fauld of four lames (restored), each decorated with a medial rib, the last cut at the centre of its lower edge with a small semi-circular notch and fitted to either side of it with a pair of straps for the suspension of tassets; and a backplate formed of a central main plate that narrows to its lower end, and two side-plates (the right associated and patched at its upper end) that are riveted within its lateral edges, the shallow neck-opening and the arm-openings, to which both the main plate and the side-plates contribute, formed with narrow inward turns, and its lower edge fitted with a waist-plate (restored) bearing a culet en suite with the fauld 53 cm; 20¾ in Provenance Sixth Count of Asalto, Guadamur Castle, near Toledo, circa 1887 Ambrose Monell, Tuxedo Park, New York, before 1911 Henry Furmage, London George F. Harding Jr, Chicago, purchased 1927 Transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982, Acc. No. 1982.2600