Parade shield, dated 1554 by Giorgio Ghisi (1520 - 1582), Italian engraver from Mantua who also worked in Antwerp and in France. The shield, now part of the Waddesdon Bequest, is made of iron, hammered in relief, damascened with gold and partly plated with silver. It has an intricate design with a scene of battling horseman in the centre, within a frame, around which are four further frames containing allegorical female figures, the frames themselves incorporating minute subjects from the Iliad and ancient mythology, inlaid in gold.