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"current_location": "210A Armor Court",
"title": "Breastplate with Etched Bands of Trophies and Medallions",
"creation_date": "c. 1550\u20131600",
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"department": "Medieval Art",
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"type": "Arms and Armor",
"measurements": "Overall: 46 x 34.7 x 15.9 cm (18 1/8 x 13 11/16 x 6 1/4 in.)",
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"title": "Armor Court Reinstallation",
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"opening_date": "1998-09-10T00:00:00"
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{
"description": "Edwin J. Brett (1828-1895), London, England",
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"description": "Frank Gair Macomber, Boston, MA (1949-1941), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"description": "Buffe (etched with bands of trophies), c. 1550\u20131600. North Italy, 16th century. Etched steel; overall: 25.5 x 17.5 x 13.8 cm (10 1/16 x 6 7/8 x 5 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.1930",
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"description": "Burgonet, c. 1550\u20131600. North Italy, 16th century. Steel, etched; overall: 31.5 x 35.4 x 21.3 cm (12 3/8 x 13 15/16 x 8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.1653",
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"did_you_know": "Etching is a technique where either the design or its ground is bitten into the metal surface with acid, the rest being protected by a protective wax or varnish.",
"description": "Shown here together is a burgonet, buffe, and breastplate all decorated with a technique known as etching. A burgonet is a light open helmet characterized by a peak, a fall over the eyes, and hinged earpieces. The face is protected by the addition of a buffe, a sperate detachable element worn with the open helmet that extends to the throat. It connects to the breastplate which protects the abdomen and is worn with a backplate.",
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"citation": "Catalogue of Arms and Armour. Vol. 3, 16th century. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], [1900-1915].",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: No. (157) 160",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour3_201602/page/n294"
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"citation": "\"Front Matter.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 5 (1918).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: Front Matter",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136194"
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"citation": "Gilchrist, Helen Ives. A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms & Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 64, C10",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n89"
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.",
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
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