A Rare North Italian (Milanese) Breast-Plate In The German Style, From The Armoury Of The Castle Of Churburg

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more

R.T. Gwynn ,ACCESSORIES, ,ARMS AND ARMOUR

A Rare North Italian (Milanese) Breast-Plate In The German Style, From The Armoury Of The Castle Of Churburg

CIRCA 1480

Details

A Rare North Italian (Milanese) Breast-Plate In The German Style, From The Armoury Of The Castle Of Churburg
Circa 1480
Of bulbous form, made in two halves, the upper one with neck- and armholes with turned edges, on the latter bordered by double ribs, below the neck a raised 'V'-shaped section struck with a maker's mark 'IA' under a split cross, the overlapping lower half triangular, secured at the point by a sliding rivet and at the sides by internal leathers, the lower edge flanged and carrying a skirt of three articulated plates with a medial ridge
20½in. (52.1cm.) high

Provenance

The armoury of the Castle of Churburg (Castel Coira), South Tyrol, Galerie Fischer, Luzern, 29 November 1967, lot 56 (SFr. 12,500 to Gwynn)

Literature

Boccia 1982, fig. 159
Churburg, inv. no. 36 (inv. no. 39 is wrongly illustrated with this number in the catalogue - plate XXXIII, b)
The second volume by Mario Scalini illustrates inv. no. 36 on p. 84 (plate 32)

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

This is one of a group of infantry breast-plates made in Italy for export, of which a number of other examples exist at Churburg, two (inv. nos. 34 and 350) bearing the same mark

See Boccia 1982, figs. 157-60
Scalini, passim

More from FINE ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOUR AND BOOKS FROM THE R T GWYNN

View All