Sabaton for the Right Foot

ca. 1550 (Renaissance) 4 5/16 in. (10.9 cm) Citation Source image

The piece of armor that protects the top of the foot is called by the French term "sabaton" (from the old French word for shoe or foot covering). It usually consists of horizontal lames (plates), ending in a toecap, articulated with rivets and straps so as to bend with the mo...

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F. Engel-Gros, Castle of Ripaille, Muhlhausen [on the Lake of Geneva]; Sale, Paris, May 30-June 1, 1921, no. 228; Harding, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1921, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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