Left Gauntlet

Culture Southern German , probably Augsburg

Dateabout 1580

Mediumsteel with etching and gilding, iron, brass, leather fragments and modern leather with restorations

Dimensions1 lb 4 oz (weight)

ClassificationsArms and Armor

MarkingsStamped assembly nos. 2, 3, 4 on R metacarpal lames. Interior painted accession number.

Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection

Terms

Object number2014.660.16

DescriptionComposite, with restorations and alterations. Decorated as vambraces. Pointed, flared cuffs of riveted halves, embossed later. The same is true for the eight metacarpal lames. Restorations here include: right thumb lames; lower five metacarpal lames and fingers of left. Edges of plates have guilloche rather than key motif on the first and third metacarpal lames of proper right and third of left. Original lames have double-nicks on inner edges. Edges of plates rolled over a wire, left plain.
Provenance(Possibly) Herberstein family, Eggenberg Castle (possibly) M. Bachereau (Paris) Mr. Oliver H. P. Belmont (NYC) ex-collection Mr. Clarence H. Mackay (Roslyn, L.I.). Purchased by the Museum through Jacques Seligmann & Co. (NYC), agents for the estate of Clarence H. Mackay on 1 April 1940. Their number A-14/104. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.

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