Lot Essay
See Gamber 1955, fig. 95
Boccia 1982
Boccia 1982
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CIRCA 1430-40
Details
Two North Italian Vambraces
Circa 1430-40
For the right and left arm and of the same period, but not an exact pair, each comprising an open upper-cannon with turned top and bottom edges, articulated, by two plates on the left and one on the right, to a bluntly-pointed cowter, with an oval side-wing with V-shaped central 'pucker', articulated by two plates to a tulip-shaped two-part lower- cannon, hinged together on the inner side and buckled on the outer, the edge flanged inside the elbow joint and with a turn at the wrist, with indistinct maker's marks on the left upper-cannon and the right lower-cannon, the former involving split crosses (straps and buckles and leather tabs at the top for points replaced)
16½in. (41.9cm.) and 17in. (43.2cm.) (2)
Circa 1430-40
For the right and left arm and of the same period, but not an exact pair, each comprising an open upper-cannon with turned top and bottom edges, articulated, by two plates on the left and one on the right, to a bluntly-pointed cowter, with an oval side-wing with V-shaped central 'pucker', articulated by two plates to a tulip-shaped two-part lower- cannon, hinged together on the inner side and buckled on the outer, the edge flanged inside the elbow joint and with a turn at the wrist, with indistinct maker's marks on the left upper-cannon and the right lower-cannon, the former involving split crosses (straps and buckles and leather tabs at the top for points replaced)
16½in. (41.9cm.) and 17in. (43.2cm.) (2)
Provenance
Said to have been found in the roof of a cottage near Madrid in the 19th century
Sir Edward Barry, Bt., Ockwells Manor, Bray
Sidney H. Barnett, Ockwells Manor and Claverdon Hall, Warwickshire, Sotheby & Co., London, 5 July 1965, lot 62 (as part of a composite armour)
Christie's, London, 10 February 1971, lot 61 (in the same form)
Sir Edward Barry, Bt., Ockwells Manor, Bray
Sidney H. Barnett, Ockwells Manor and Claverdon Hall, Warwickshire, Sotheby & Co., London, 5 July 1965, lot 62 (as part of a composite armour)
Christie's, London, 10 February 1971, lot 61 (in the same form)
Literature
Laking 1905, pp. 72 (mounted on armour, bottom left illustration), 73
Special notice
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