- Object type
- Arms and Armour
- Date
- Production: 1440 - 1460
- Subject(s)
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Arms and Armour
War - Associated activity
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Siege
War - Inscriptions
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Image of an orb surmounted by a cross with trifid arms and containing a conjoined 'AP'
- Dimensions
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Height x width x depth: 190 x 190 x 140mm
Weight: 18oz - Materials and technique
- Stamped steel
- Physical description
- The upper portion of the wrapper flares from the neck and has a prow like medial keel. The profile at the front is straight, and the upper edge dips to the middle at the front. The right upper corner is cut off obliquely, while the left corner is lost. A broad flange at the neck is pierced with rivet holes for the gorget plates (throat guard) and there are rivet holes at either side near the neck for a strap and buckle.
- Production place
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Milan
Italy - References
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Eaves, Ian, Walter J. Karcheski Jr., and Thom Richardson. Armour from Rhodes in the Museum of the Order of St John, Clerkenwell. London: Museum of the Order of St John, 1985.
Karcheski Jr., Walter J., and Thom Richardson. The Medieval Armour from Rhodes. Leeds: Royal Armouries and Higgins Armory Museum, 2000.
Pages 3–4, 142 and 145 - Credit line
- Gift of Sir George Wilkinson, 1960
- Catalogue number
- 2643
Wrapper for an armet
This piece of armour is a wrapper, a lower face plate, which would have been worn with a mid fifteenth-century Italian armet style helmet, probably from Milan. A wrapper covers the lower face and neck of the wearer and prevents the visor on the helmet from being struck open in combat.