Knight or soldier in armour

ca. 1450 - ca. 1470 · Sculpture · 113 × 26 cm

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《Knight or soldier in armour》现在在哪里？ 维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆, Medieval & Renaissance, Room 10a, The Françoise and Georges Selz Gallery, 倫敦. 是，正在展出. 核实 2026年9月25日.

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倫敦, 英国

展厅Medieval & Renaissance, Room 10a, The Françoise and Georges Selz Gallery

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此状态始于: 2026年9月25日
出处: 博物馆

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This unique oak figure represents a knight, one of three ranks of the retinue of a noble family. With two companion sculptures representing a squire and a man-at-arms, this figure would have been placed high on a screen in a great hall, still an important focus of noble living in this period. Linked to Kirkoswald Castle and Naworth Castle in Cumbria, they may once have held flags displaying heraldic devices of the Dacre family who owned both residences.

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In medieval English figurative sculpture arms and armour denoted chivalrous rank and at least esquire status: the bulk of English knights were drawn from the squirearchy, families influential and important in their own county or shire, but not necessarily of enormous consequence at a national level. Entitlement to knighthood was by wealth; in the 15th century an income of £40 enetitled a man to become a knight. Arms and armour were very expensive, and came to imply by their presence in art noble status.

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