Gorget (from a funerary achievement?)
1590–1625
- Medium
- gilded steel (invaded with rust); red velvet lining, plume holder
- Dimensions
- Overall: 32.4 x 24.8 x 19.1 cm (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- arms and armor
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Netherlands(?), late 16th-early 17th Century
About
This helmet was originally intended for field use. Later, it seems to have served a funerary purpose, probably as an ornament (known as a funerary achievement) suspended over the church tomb of an unidentified knight. As such, it would have been a rich and imposing symbol of the dead knight's social rank and personal authority.