AUCTIONS IMPERIAL 2025 MAY
Lot 204:
Description
Northern Italian, generally termed Pisan, work, comprising a backplate, left and right pauldrons and arms, a left gauntlet and right lower leg and foot, all matching. Wrought of steel, the backplate retaining an original leather strap and decorated with three broad panels of etched decoration involving vinework on a stippled ground with rolled and roped borders. The matching pauldrons composed of four articulated plates with three panels of etching, the right pauldron lacking the lowest plate. Each of the left and right arm defenses is complete, composed of four upper plates, a rerebrace, a couter and a two-part vambrace with etched bands throughout and terminating in rolled and roped borders. The articulated gauntlet for the left hand composed of six plates in addition to the thumb (fingers lacking.) The finely-formed greave for the right leg with well-articulated ankle, slosing with rotating pins and bearclaw sabaton following civilian male fashion of the day, wrought of numerous lames permitting great flexibility, the whole embellished with panels of etched foliage en suite with the other parts. Third quarter of the 16th century. General wear, straps and fingers lacking, some areas of old light pitting. Overall height of backplate 37cm./ 14 1/2 inches. Condition III.
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