Shaffron
Horses also needed protection from the enemy's weapons. By the mid-1400s, armorers had devised a near-complete set of armor to protect the steed in battle. Together these formed a bard. The head was covered by a shaffron (from chanfrein, French for the part of a horse's head f...
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Baron de Cosson; Sir Edward Barry, bart., Ockswell Manor [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Barry Sale, Sotheby, London, July 5, 1965, lot 32; Walters Art Museum, 1965, by purchase.
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2
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