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THBLate 16th C. Italian Gilt Steel Vamplate w/ Wood Lance
Lot 164b
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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2020-10-08 10:00:00
2020-10-08 10:00:00
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- Lot Description
Western/Southern Europe, Italy, Renaissance period, ca. 1580s CE (vamplate) and 1650 to 1700 CE (lance). A rare example of a wooden jousting lance of a typical form with a narrow hand grip centered between a conical butt spike and an enormous body. The lance is painted with a white base for increased visibility in the jousting arena as well as a coiling spiral of black pigment for visual appeal. Resting just above the handle is a gorgeous steel vamplate of a tapered form with three trapezoidal panels bearing etched foliate motifs, vertical and horizontal borders adorned with curvilinear motifs overlaid with gilding, and brass rivets surrounding the lower periphery. The interior periphery is lined with a leather strip to better comfort the jouster's hand. Typical vamplates were made of crude iron or low-grade steel, so a vamplate bearing intricate gilt details was perhaps owned only by the wealthy of society. The tip is capped with a modern foam coronal. Size (lance): 102" L (259.1 cm); (vamplate): 10.75" W x 5.2" H (27.3 cm x 13.2 cm)
Provenance: ex-estate of Eldert Bontekoe, Pegasi Numismatics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; ex-Andrew Garcia collection, Coral Gables, Florida, USA; ex-Harold Peterson collection
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#159233Lance and vamplate are from the Renaissance period, and foam coronal is modern. Lance has a few stable pressure fissures, chipping and fading to pigment, and light encrustations; vamplate has replacement to several or all brass rivets, with age-commensurate desiccation to interior leather lining, a few small indentations, and encrustations and fading to gilt details; both are intact and excellent. Wonderful patina and preservation of gilding on vamplate, and great craquelure to lance pigment.Condition
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