Lot Essay
This is a typical high-quality German Gothic back-plate: compare, for example inv. nos. A21 and A208 in the Wallace Collection
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LATE 15TH CENTURY
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A Fine And Rare German Gothic Back-Plate
Late 15th Century
The back-plate proper of five plates, the top one covering the upper part of the back, with armholes and a 'V'-shaped cut-out at the top, the latter filled by a small internal riveted plate, the lower edge cut to a cusped flattened inverted 'V' shape, linked by two narrow downward-lapping plates of similar design to a shaped waist-plate with flanged lower edge carrying a pointed culet of three upward-lapping plates with cusped upper edges, with a central gore-shaped arrangement of flutes joining two pairs of double flutes radiating across the back, the armholes and bottom edge bordered by double flutes, all but the neck-plate articulated on rivets
21½in. (54.6cm.) high
Late 15th Century
The back-plate proper of five plates, the top one covering the upper part of the back, with armholes and a 'V'-shaped cut-out at the top, the latter filled by a small internal riveted plate, the lower edge cut to a cusped flattened inverted 'V' shape, linked by two narrow downward-lapping plates of similar design to a shaped waist-plate with flanged lower edge carrying a pointed culet of three upward-lapping plates with cusped upper edges, with a central gore-shaped arrangement of flutes joining two pairs of double flutes radiating across the back, the armholes and bottom edge bordered by double flutes, all but the neck-plate articulated on rivets
21½in. (54.6cm.) high
Provenance
Graf Solm-Braunfels
W.R. Hearst, New York, Galerie Fischer, Luzern, 24 June 1963, lot 63 (by private purchase after the sale)
W.R. Hearst, New York, Galerie Fischer, Luzern, 24 June 1963, lot 63 (by private purchase after the sale)
Special notice
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