CIRCA 1625
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A Fine Right Pauldron And Vambrace From A Flemish Cuirassier Armour
Circa 1625
Of bright steel (lightly pitted throughout), the pauldron of six plates extending well over the front and back, linked by six plates and a turning-joint to the vambrace, the latter comprising upper and lower canons, the latter in two parts hinged together, linked by six articulated plates above and below to a bluntly-pointed cowter with heart-shaped side-wing (border holed) struck with the mark of the Master 'MP', the inside of the elbow joint protected by seventeen articulated plates, the edges throughout bordered by engraved lines, and the main edges turned and roped, with domed iron rivets throughout (some replaced)
22in. (55.8cm.) long
The owner of the maker's mark, a crowned shield charged with three fleurs-de-lys between the initials 'MP', was formerly thought to have been a member of the Petit family of Blois, which worked for the Court of Louis XIII. It is now ascribed to an unidentified Flemish armourer on the evidence of armours bearing the mark that are known to have been sent to Philip IV of Spain from Brussels in 1624 and 1626, now in the Real Armería, Madrid. Armour made by him for King Wladyslaw IV of Poland is in the Royal Armoury, Stockholm, and pieces from the old Imperial Armoury are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna and the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. See W.J. Karcheski, 'Notes on a newly-identified armour by the Flemish Master "MP", in the Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA.', J.A.A.S., XI, 1983-5, pp. 307-14
Circa 1625
Of bright steel (lightly pitted throughout), the pauldron of six plates extending well over the front and back, linked by six plates and a turning-joint to the vambrace, the latter comprising upper and lower canons, the latter in two parts hinged together, linked by six articulated plates above and below to a bluntly-pointed cowter with heart-shaped side-wing (border holed) struck with the mark of the Master 'MP', the inside of the elbow joint protected by seventeen articulated plates, the edges throughout bordered by engraved lines, and the main edges turned and roped, with domed iron rivets throughout (some replaced)
22in. (55.8cm.) long
The owner of the maker's mark, a crowned shield charged with three fleurs-de-lys between the initials 'MP', was formerly thought to have been a member of the Petit family of Blois, which worked for the Court of Louis XIII. It is now ascribed to an unidentified Flemish armourer on the evidence of armours bearing the mark that are known to have been sent to Philip IV of Spain from Brussels in 1624 and 1626, now in the Real Armería, Madrid. Armour made by him for King Wladyslaw IV of Poland is in the Royal Armoury, Stockholm, and pieces from the old Imperial Armoury are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna and the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. See W.J. Karcheski, 'Notes on a newly-identified armour by the Flemish Master "MP", in the Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA.', J.A.A.S., XI, 1983-5, pp. 307-14