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A German Hand-Pavise
Late 15th Century, The Painted Decoration Probably 17th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A German Hand-Pavise
Late 15th Century, The Painted Decoration Probably 17th Century

Of oblong form with rounded corners and broad central gutter, of wood covered in gesso over canvas, the front painted in polychrome against a russet ground (old repairs and restoration) with the coats-of-arms of Jean V Imhof and of his wife Catherine Müffel von Eschenau and Eicenhard (married 25 November 1486), the interior (some loss of gesso and paint) with original X-shaped leather hand grip (partly detached)
63.5 cm. high

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Provenance:
Christie's Geneva, Fine Antique Arms, 26 April 1977, lot 46 (illustrated)

For a similar example in the Kienbusch Collection and painted with the arms of the Nuremberg families of Imhof zu Mörlach, Muffel zu Eschenau and Tucher von Simmelsdorf und Winterstein (?), see C. Otto von Kienbusch, The Kretschmar Von Kienbusch Collection Of Armor And Arms, 1963, pp. 136-137, no. 276, pl. LXXXVII

A number of similar pavises are preserved in the church of St. Lorenz in Nuremberg. In use as funerary achievements they are painted with the arms of different Nuremberg families

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
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