A suit of jousting armour, 1480. With grand guard to protect the breast and left shoulder, volant piece and right shoulder protector, and elbow guards or garde-de-bras, tasses and pointed tuilette, pointed sollerets and plate gauntlets. In the possession of Llewelyn Meyrick bought from the Caraffa family, Naples, Italy. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, John Dowding, London, 1842.

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