A rare Italian Gothic upper back-plate circa 1440-50. Comprising the upper four-lames without the waist-lame, the four plates embossed with a medial V-shaped recess over the greater part of their length, the lower three upwardly overlapping and shaped to low points in the centre, the central plates narrower than the other two, the lower lame with contemporary narrow extensions left and right, the upper lame with a deeply concave neck-opening, the neck- and arm-openings with narrow outward turns at the edges (internally patched repairs), an middle, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available

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