Right Vambrace
Artist
workshops of Wolf and Peter von Speyer
, or (Germany)
Artist
Wolf Peppinghorn
(Saxony, Germany)
Dateabout 1590–1600
Mediumsteel, iron and leather
Dimensions49 × 21 × 13 cm (19 5/16 × 8 1/4 × 5 1/8 in.), 5 lb 4 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
MarkingsLeft vambrace has pair of punched dots within, on the lower edge of upper cannon lower half; right vambrace has punched dot at either end of tendon protector outer face, double nick marks on edges of upper cannon lames & single nicks on lower.
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.1175.8
DescriptionRight vambrace not a pair with L; it is the larger of the two. Consisting of turner with 2 lames above; upper cannon, cowter with 2 lames above, 2 below; lower cannon of 2 plates. Has incised rosette motif at point of elbow, and single recessed borders at the openings. There is a dentated edge on the lower cannon at the elbow opening, and a roped edge on the upper cannon at the elbow opening. Roping is also present at the cuff, cowter wing, turner channel, and top edge.ProvenanceDresden Electoral Armory (possibly) Friedrich August III, King of Saxony Kahlert & Son (Berlin), their no. 87 William R. Hearst Clarence H. MacKay (Roslyn, L. I.) his A-32. Sold with shaffron HAM# 2586.2. Purchased by the Armory from Jacques Seligmann & Co. (NYC), agents for the Mackay estate on 1 April 1940, their A-32/113. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, Janaury 2014.
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