The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Composite Armor

Kaspar Riederer|Jörg Wagner|Hans Prunner

comprehensively ca. 1485–95

Attribution

Rondel by|Sallet by|Breastplate and backplate by Kaspar Riederer|Jörg Wagner|Hans Prunner | | Austrian, Innsbruck and Mühlau, active 1452–99|Austrian, Innsbruck, recorded 1485–92|Austrian, Innsbruck, recorded 1482–99

Medium

Steel

Physical dimensions

14.25.1661b: Diam. 7 1/2 in. (19 cm); Wt. 8 oz. (226 g); 29.150.5a: D. of tail 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm); 29.150.70: H. 19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm); W. 15 in. (38.1 cm); Wt. 4 lb. 15 oz. (2240 g); 29.150.80: H. 19 5/8 in. (49.8 cm); Wt. 6 lb. 8 oz. (2948 g); 29.156.66k: Wt. 1 lb. (453.6 g); 29.158.255b: H. 14 1/2 in. (36.83 cm)

Credit line

Rondel (14.25.1661b): Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913; sallet, backplate, breastplate (29.150.5a, .70, .80): Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Bequest of Bashford Dean, 1928; couter (29.156.66k): Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1929; gauntlet (29.158.255b): Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, 1929