拍品 93
93
THE PROPERTY OF IAN EAVES, ESQ, F.S.A. KEEPER OF ARMOUR, ROYAL ARMOURIES, TOWER OF LONDON
A HORSEMAN'S PAULDRON, VAMBRACE AND ASSOCIATED MITTEN GAUNTLET for the right arm, rough from the hammer, comprising a pauldron of three upward-lapping lames extending across the chest and back, cut out for use with a lance, and with three small downward-lapping lames over the tops of the arm linked by a roped turn to the upper-cannon of the vambrace, lower cannon of two hinged gutter-shaped plates with a strap and buckle (strap missing) on the inside, the two cannons are articulated above and below by two lames, the outer one scalloped, to a cowter with heart-shaped side-wing, curved over the inside of the elbow and bisected by a central roped rib, sunked roped borders and original brass-capped rivets throughout; the gauntlet with flaring boxed cuff (lining rivets missing) shaped over the base of the thumb (thumb-plates missing), two articulated metacarpal and four finger-lames, the knuckles and lines of the fingers marked by gable-section ribs with engraved lines between, the cuff and finger-lame (replaced) with sunken roped borders, English or Flemish, circa 1555

細節
A HORSEMAN'S PAULDRON, VAMBRACE AND ASSOCIATED MITTEN GAUNTLET for the right arm, rough from the hammer, comprising a pauldron of three upward-lapping lames extending across the chest and back, cut out for use with a lance, and with three small downward-lapping lames over the tops of the arm linked by a roped turn to the upper-cannon of the vambrace, lower cannon of two hinged gutter-shaped plates with a strap and buckle (strap missing) on the inside, the two cannons are articulated above and below by two lames, the outer one scalloped, to a cowter with heart-shaped side-wing, curved over the inside of the elbow and bisected by a central roped rib, sunked roped borders and original brass-capped rivets throughout; the gauntlet with flaring boxed cuff (lining rivets missing) shaped over the base of the thumb (thumb-plates missing), two articulated metacarpal and four finger-lames, the knuckles and lines of the fingers marked by gable-section ribs with engraved lines between, the cuff and finger-lame (replaced) with sunken roped borders, English or Flemish, circa 1555
來源
The armoury of the Earls of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire
出版
F. Wilkinson, Battle Dress, London, 1970, pl. 8

See J.G. Mann, 'Recollections of the Wilton Armoury', The Connoisseur, July, 1939, pp. 10-16; J.F. Hayward, 'The Armoury of the First Earl of Pembroke', ibid., April, 1964, pp. 225-230

拍品專文

These pieces belong to a well-known series of armours acquired for use by the Earls of Pembroke and kept in their armoury at Wilton House until the present Century. The particular group to which these pieces belong were perhaps acquired to equip the followers of William Herbert, 1st Earl (1501?-1570) when he was appointed Captain of Calais in 1556, and may have been worn by them when he led the English contingent to the Battle of St. Quentin in 1558. They were almost certainly the black "Oimi launces" of which forty seven were recorded at Wilton in December, 1558