CIRCA 1490

細節

A Very Fine German Breast-Plate By Hans Prunner Of Innsbruck
Circa 1490
Of bright steel, globose with medial ridge, with two downward-lapping articulated plates at the waist, the bottom one wider and flanged for the skirt (missing), the lower edges of the main and middle plate each curving down to a central point, exceptionally massive angular turns at edges of the neck-opening and moveable gussets at the armholes, and hinged lance-rest secured by the original screws and bolts and inlaid with copper-alloy bands, struck on the main plate the mark of Hans Prunner, and the Mamluk arsenal mark
17¼in. (43.8cm.) high

來源

The Mamluk arsenal in the former Church of St. Irene, Istanbul
Robert Curzon, Baron Zouche of Parham, Sotheby & Co., 10 November 1920, lot 58 (£120 to Robson)
S.J. Whawell, Sotheby & Co., 4 May 1927, lot 212 (£95 to Fenton)
H.D. Barnes, Sotheby & Co., 21 April 1955, lot 110 (£100 to Gwynn)

出版

Hayward & Blair, fig. 7

展覽

Art of the Armourer, cat. no. 8

注意事項

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.

拍品專文

Hans Prunner (recorded 1482-99), who originated in Augsburg, was one of the most distinguished of the late 15th-century Innsbruck armourers, employed among others by the young King Philip I ("The Handsome") of Spain, the Archduke Siegmund of Tyrol, and the Matsch family of Churburg. An armour made for Philip is in the Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer, Vienna (inv. no. A9), and part of one made probably for Gaudenz von Matsch is at Churburg (inv. nos. 31, 52); compare also the breast-plate of a cuirass by him in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. nos. 29. 150. 70 & 80)
See Dean Collection (inv. nos. 56, 62)
Innsbruck Exhibition, pp. 59-60
See also lot 73