Horse Muzzle dated 1552 German This muzzle is composed of a basket made of several pierced iron panels riveted together, with two kidney-shaped openings at the front for the horses nostrils. It hung on the horses head by means of a leather headstall.It is decorated with rosettes in openwork, while the iron is shaped to ressemble ragged staves and bramble rods. The crown (the upper part of the basket) is inscribed with a motto in Latin, SI DEUS NOBISCUBM CANTRO, a misspelled and abbreviated version of the popular statement Si Deus Nobiscum Quis Contra Nos (If God is with us who is against us?). Below, a cartouche bears the date 1552.Horse muzzles were used to preventing stallions from biting. Such pieces, however, seem to have above all been used as lavish equestrian ornaments, particularly in fashion in eastern Germany in the second half of the 16th and the early 17th century. Dated 1552, this example is one of the very first muzzles of this type produced. This pierced decoration is

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Horse Muzzle dated 1552 German This muzzle is composed of a basket made of several pierced iron panels riveted together, with two kidney-shaped openings at the front for the horses nostrils. It hung on the horses head by means of a leather headstall.It is decorated with rosettes in openwork, while the iron is shaped to ressemble ragged staves and bramble rods. The crown (the upper part of the basket) is inscribed with a motto in Latin, SI DEUS NOBISCUBM CANTRO, a misspelled and abbreviated version of the popular statement Si Deus Nobiscum Quis Contra Nos (If God is with us who is against us?). Below, a cartouche bears the date 1552.Horse muzzles were used to preventing stallions from biting. Such pieces, however, seem to have above all been used as lavish equestrian ornaments, particularly in fashion in eastern Germany in the second half of the 16th and the early 17th century. Dated 1552, this example is one of the very first muzzles of this type produced. This pierced decoration is

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