Tilting Target
Artist
workshops of Wolf and Peter von Speyer
, or (Germany)
Artist
Wolf Peppinghorn
(Saxony, Germany)
Dateabout 1590–1600
Mediumsteel, iron and leather
Dimensions47 × 42 × 13 cm (18 1/2 × 16 9/16 × 5 1/8 in.), 6 lb, 9.5 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
MarkingsMounting hole at neck of target identified with group of 4 punched dots around a fifth; similar group on hole in reinforcing bevor which also has single serial dot to left of middle hole in right row of mounting-holes; breastplate & its reinforce are identically marked to one another. There is single dot aligned with that noted above, 2 below hole below left armpit, 4 above top hole for lance-rest & 3 at hole below.
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.1175.19
DescriptionTilting- target: 6 lb. 9.5 oz., is larger than that of WAM 2014.1154, and does not seem to have had painted arms. It is of 1 piece of steel. There are lining rivets along the L and lower edges, with another line joining the ends of the first two to form a triangle, and another line running up the center of the plate. There presumably used to be a leather lining. The neck flanges have been reshaped.
The central spike screws in, and has a transverse hole; it is not that shown in the Kahlert photograph (cf. to Royal Armouries II.170).
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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