A RARE GERMAN PAINTED HAND-PAVISE
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A RARE GERMAN PAINTED HAND-PAVISE

MID-LATE 15TH CENTURY

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A RARE GERMAN PAINTED HAND-PAVISE
MID-LATE 15TH CENTURY
Of wooden construction faced with leather or vellum, the outer covering sewn onto the body using natural hide stitches, of acutely corrugated form with strongly convex central gutter, the inner face painted dark red and fitted with hide loops top and bottom together with a T-shaped grip of course wood and hide, the outer face painted (restored) with a Gothic inscription surrounding a central panel of red scales, 21 in. (53 cm.) high
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For discussions on similar pavise, please see Helmut Nickel, The Seven Shields of Behaim: New Evidence, The Metropolitan Museum Journal, no. 30, 1995, pp. 30-1 and 35. Comparable examples are retained in the Kienbusch Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin.

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