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Date : 1548
Material : Leather, Engraved steel
Acquisition : Gift of Bashford Dean (1929)
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Arms and Armors
Weapons
Vitrine : V01 (Ref. 4406)
Area related
Nuremberg (Germany)
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Kunz Lochner was one of the few Nuremberg armorers of the mid-sixtenth century to achieve and international reputation. His patrons included the Holy Roman Emperor, the dukes of Saxony and the king of Poland. The man's armor bears the mark of Nuremberg, Lochner's personal mark (a rampant lion) and the date 1548. The armor was originally part of a small garniture that included exchange elements for field and tournament use.
The horse armor bears only the Nuremberg mark but can be attribured to Lochner on stylistic grounds. The embossed and etched decoration of the peytral included an abbreviated inscription that may be interpreted :
"1548 K(rist) T(rau) G(anz) V(nd) G(ar) E(rnst) H(erzog) Z(u) Sachsen"
"1548, In Christ I trust wholly, Hans (Johann) Ernst, Duke of Saxony".
Duke Johann Ernst (1521-1553) may have commissioned the horse armor for his attendance at the Diet of Augsburg, a political assembly of the German nobility called in 1548 by Charles V to deal with the crisis of the Reformation.
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