SECOND HALF OF THE 15TH CENTURY

Details

A Fine German Gothic Mace
Second half of the 15th Century
With head of six shaped acutely pointed flanges each pierced with a circular hole and inlaid with small sections of latten below a castellated latten cap and a spirally fluted steel finial, tapering two-stage shaft of hexagonal section, hexagonal grip rough from the hammer (binding missing) with shaped pierced guard and flat pommel inlaid with latten, and spirally fluted steel button
20½in. (52.1cm.)

Provenance

Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (according to the catalogue of the 1911 Metropolitan Museum of Art Loan Exhibition)
Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, Galerie George Petit, 10-14 June 1895, lot 146
Frank Gair Macomber, Boston, U.S.A.,
John Long Severance Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 30 March 1961, lot 117 (US $250 to Gwynn)

Literature

Severance Collection (i), no. K3, p. 245, plate XLIX
Severance Collection (ii), plate 30
Hayward & Blair, p. 86, plate 8

Exhibited

A Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1911, cat. no.161
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Art of the Armourer, cat. no. 146

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Cf. similar maces in the Wallace Collection (inv. no. A 978), in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and (formerly) in the Boissonnas Collection, Geneva (inv. no. 103)
See lot 23

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