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Probably given by Catherine de' Medici to Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany. French (Louvre) school, by an unknown armourer, about 1570 Ex Dino Collection. Metropolitan Museum, New York

the French King's collection; for it is undoubtedly the work of the same artist who made the so-called suit of armour and shield of Henri II now in the Louvre (see Vol. iii, page 347, Fig. 1092). Indeed it might have been part of the same set. The very characteristic ornamentation found on the crest of the casque is seen again on the top taceplate and upon the garde-de-rein of the Louvre suit, and on no other piece of armour with which we are acquainted.