The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Shirt of Mail

Unrecorded artist

15th century

Attribution

Unrecorded artist

Medium

Steel, copper alloy (latten), iron, brass

Physical dimensions

H. (as mounted) 36 in. (91.5 cm); W. 56 5/16 in. (143.0 cm); W. of chest 24 3/8 in. (62.0 cm); Diam. (outside) of iron links 3/8 in. (9.3 mm); Diam. (inside) of iron links 9/32 in. (7.1 mm); Diam. (outside) of latten links 3/8 in. (9.6 mm); Diam. (inside) of latten links 9/32 in. (7.2 mm); Wt. 20 lb. (9071.9 g)

Credit line

Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1929