Lot Essay
Similar bucklers are shown in Burgkmair's Triumph of Maximilian, and the Opera Nova (1536) of the Italian fencing master Achille Marozzo. Iron examples are in the Metropolitan Museum and the Wallace Collection. See Laking, vol. II, pp. 246-7; Stone's Glossary, fig. 713; Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues. European Arms and Armour, Nos. A 318 and 319