拍品专文
Similar shaffrons have survived in the Kienbusch Collection, Philadelphia (cat. no. 217), and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. no. M 2711-1931)
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GERMAN, CIRCA 1520
细节
A RARE 'MAXIMILIAN' SHAFFRON
German, circa 1520
In two halves riveted together horizontally, shaped to the front of the horse's head, decorated with radiating flutes, and with prominent medial ridge down the nose, the eye openings and the lower border each with narrow turn bordered by lining rivets (some missing), pierced on the brow for a plume-holder (missing), separate ear-pieces, and later shield-shaped escutcheon (small repairs to left side of the nose and to the right ear-piece)
24½in. (62.2cm.)
German, circa 1520
In two halves riveted together horizontally, shaped to the front of the horse's head, decorated with radiating flutes, and with prominent medial ridge down the nose, the eye openings and the lower border each with narrow turn bordered by lining rivets (some missing), pierced on the brow for a plume-holder (missing), separate ear-pieces, and later shield-shaped escutcheon (small repairs to left side of the nose and to the right ear-piece)
24½in. (62.2cm.)
来源
The Princes Radziwill, Niewiez Castle, Lithuania The late Mrs. Bertha Wickham, Sotheby & Co., London, 12 June 1953, lot 14 (£7 to Burton) Aubrey C. Burton, Sotheby & Co., London, 17 May 1971, lot 153 (£950) Anon. sale in these Rooms 3 July 1991, lot 130 (£11,000 including premium)