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Title:Gorget for an Officer of the South Carolina Infantry Regiment
Date:late 18th century
Culture:American
Medium:Brass, gold
Dimensions:H. 4 3/4 in. (12.07 cm); W. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
Classification:Armor Parts-Gorgets
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1969
Accession Number:69.138.3
Private collection (said to have belonged to John Marshall, a relative of the owner, Charleston, SC; until 1969; Fine Firearms, Arms and Armor, and Pewter sale, Christie's, Manson & Woods, London, April 1, 1969, part of no. 79, for $756 for the lot, to MMA).
Fine Firearms, arms and armor and pewter, sale catalogue. London: Christie's, London, 1969. lot 79, ill.
Howat, John K., Berry B. Tracy, Vaughn E. Crawford, Helmut Nickel, Hilde Limondjian, Bradford Kelleher, Kate C. Lefferts, Henry Geldzahler, Polaire Weissman, Jacob Bean, Harry S. Parker III, Henry G. Fischer, Claus Virch, Stuart Silver, Fong Chow, Dietrich von Bothmer, Richard Ettinghausen, Louise Condit, Elizabeth R. Usher, Florens Deuchler, Thomas Pelham Miller, Dorothy Weinberger, Emanuel Winternitz, Margaret P. Nolan, Dudley T. Easby Jr., John J. McKendry, Leon Wilson, William D. Wilkinson, John Goldsmith Phillips, and Katherine Warwick. "Reports of the Departments." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Oct.1969), vol. XVII, pp. 58–59, ill.
La Rocca, Donald J. How to Read European Armor. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017. p. 49, fig. 57.
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