Pair of Pauldrons

Artist Franz Großschedel , and/or Landshut, Southern Germany, 1555 – 1580

Artist Wolfgang Großschedel Landshut, Southern Germany, 1517 – 1562

Date1560–1570

Mediumsteel and brass with modern leather and cordage

Dimensions22 × 24 × 30 cm (8 11/16 × 9 7/16 × 11 13/16 in.), 3 lb, 2 oz (weight)

ClassificationsArms and Armor

Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection

Terms

Object number2014.1139.4-5

Description* Left pauldron mate to right, differing only in that it is deeper over front of armpit, and is not cut out. It too, once had mounts for an haute-piece, below the middle of which the mainlame is fitted with a threaded insert for a reinforcing-piece. (compare this, which is for Freirennen, Stechkueriss, and possibly other functions such as the Freiturnier to A.1179 at Vienna, a garniture for Maximilian II, ca. 1560; G.64 at Paris (plts. 42, and 49 of Landshuter Plattnerkunst).)ProvenanceEx-collection the duc de Noailles (France)
the dealer Foury (Paris)
Clarence H. Mackay (Roslyn, L.I.)
Purchased by the Armory from the estate of Clarence H. Mackay, through Jacques Seligmann & Co. (New York City) on 1 April 1940, their number A-5/115.
Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.

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