Lot 143^W

The Right Bow And Cantle Plates From A Milanese Saddle
Third Quarter Of The 16th Century

Antique Arms and Armour from the Dr. Peter Parsons Collection

20 July 2011, 14:00 BST

Knightsbridge

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The Right Bow And Cantle Plates From A Milanese Saddle
Third Quarter Of The 16th Century

Each embossed with scenes of combat between mounted and foot soldiers, some in contemporary costume, others in Classical armour, those on the bow within a landscape with trees, those on the cantle with a walled city in the background, the recessed border embossed with linked ovolos and with boldly roped edge, now acid cleaned but retaining traces of gilding (2)
26.5 cm. and 38 cm. wide

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Provenance:
Dr. Richard Williams (?)
Sotheby & Co., London, Arms and Armour from Her Majesty's Tower of London sold by Order of The Master of the Armouries (Part 2), 15 October 1974, lot 74
Sotheby & Co., London, Antique Firearms, Armour And Edged Weapons ..., 14 March 1978, lot 148
Sotheby & Co., London, European Sculpture and Works of Art, 20 April 1989, lot 276

Literature:
Wolfgang Hermann and Ernst Ludwig Wagner, Alte Waffen, Munich, 1979, p. 100, no. 86

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