Right Gauntlet

Artist workshops of Wolf and Peter von Speyer , or (Germany)

Artist Wolf Peppinghorn (Saxony, Germany)

Dateabout 1590–1600

Mediumsteel, iron, leather and black paint

Dimensions32.4 × 14 × 12.7 cm (12 3/4 × 5 1/2 × 5 in.),1 lb, 13 oz (weight)

ClassificationsArms and Armor

Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection

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Object number2014.1154.16

DescriptionThe gauntlets seem to be a pair, and may relate to the group marked with *.

The right gauntlet is formed as a mitten gauntlet, but with the gloved fingers exposed from the middle knuckles forward. The pointed, flaring cuff is of boxed section, formed from two riveted halves. The opening at the top has a roped, inward turn over a wire core, and is bordered by a recessed plain band filled with domed lining-rivets. The band is drawn into an inverted cusp at the point of the cuff and from this point extends a full-length medial ridge.

The lining-rivets retain both the leather band and the fingered leather glove sewn to it. At the opening at the base of the wrist is a near-level, plain outward, angular turn. Riveted at the side edges of the plate below the wrist is an oblong, tongued buckle and a stud for a slotted strap which encircled the wrist.

Riveted to the cuff edge below is a metacarpal defense of six curved lames overlapping toward the cuff opening. These work on domed rivets and thin, circular washers at the lobated ends. The fourth lame from the bottom is drawn out into an oval, medially-ridged, leather-lined plate defense for the thumb. The lowest metacarpal plate is riveted to a knuckle-plate that is embossed with a boxed transverse rib filled with two groups of chevrons, the groups facing one another. The knuckle-plate is in turn riveted to a rounded terminal plate finished as the cuff opening, but with slightly rounded rivet-heads. The edges of these lames are bevelled.
ProvenanceDresden "Rüstkammer" Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony (to 1925) Clarence H. Mackay (Roslyn, L.I.) (his A-31). Purchased by the Armory on 27 July 1939 at Mackay sale, Christie's (London), lot 54 (with shaffron HAM# 2550). Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.

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