A Pisan-style half armour dating: late 16th Century provenance: Milan Consisting of a pointed burgonet with a one-piece, ribbed skull featuring a pointed top and a row of iron rivets with brass rosettes at the base; provided with a nape-guard, with pointed, ribbed brim, mobile cheek-pieces; engraved with oblique frames enclosing bands decorated with garlands, armours, helmets and birds; file roped, twisted borders. Gorget with plate-neckline, worked and engraved en suite; twisted cabling at the borders of the neckline, thicker the upper one. Seven-plate pauldrons with brass rivets; decorated on bands picturing oblique frames and floral motifs and spirals engravings; the bigger plates decorated with a spiral around a female half-face portrait, with a big cartouche picturing the effigy of a knight, framed by spirals and angels. The chest-plate with a central riser, engraved with bands, frames and floral pattern; two half-faces male portraits; the back-plate worked in the same style. Vambraces en suite, folding at the elbow-cops, two-plate vambraces. One-piece tassets, with scales and engravings; iron rivets. Reparations. height 88 cm.