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 armour of about the same period. These pieces, too, are decorated with etched and gilt bands, but with bands of a different pattern; the borders again, instead of having the cabled edge, are dentated. The cross of Calatrava or of Alcantara is engraved on the left side of the breastplate. The forms of these two crosses is alike, but that of Calatrava is red, whereas that of Alcantara is green. Judging from the pattern of the etching the Count de Valencia believed that these pieces which complete the suit belonged to the Oñate family; for examples of harness made for this family can still be seen in the Madrid Armoury. Since we know that the suit made for Philip II, now at Madrid, is the work of Wolf of Landshut, the close imitator of Kolman, we may fairly assume that the remainder of the harness in the Metropolitan Museum comes from the same hand.

Showing the arms of England borne in pretence on the arms of Philip II A 261 and 262, Royal Armoury, Madrid

A very full suit of the same Philip II pattern, which has two forms of breastplate, is in the Imperial Collection, Vienna. It must formerly have been part of the Madrid harness. The late curator of the Vienna Armoury, Herr Wendelin Boeheim, was mistaken in describing the suit as the work of William Worms the younger; for the Count de Valencia of Madrid has produced very ample proof that the Madrid suit came direct from the hand of Wolf of Landshut. Although we have already figured a suit which we know to be the work of Koloman Kolman, the K.D. suit made for the Emperor Charles V (Fig. 1062), we have no hesitation in giving another example of the work of that family of armourers, this time a famous harness made by Desiderius, Koloman's son. We refer to the suit of parade armour constructed for King Philip II when he was heir apparent, Nos. A 239-239 bis, A 240-240 bis, and A 242, now in the Royal Armoury of Madrid (Fig. 1072). The descriptive inventories of the Madrid Armoury made in the XVIth century are brief and garbled, so that without the sketches of the armour to which they refer—sketches such as are to be found in the Inventario