Targe de joute avec échancrure de lance,... - Lot 43 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Targe de joute avec échancrure de lance, Tartsche mit Lanzenausschnitt, dans le style Allemand de la fin du XVe siècle. A German jousting targe, Tartsche mit Lanzenausschnitt, in the style of the late 15th century. With waisted rectangular wooden body concave and with bifurcated lower edge, the upper right segment bouched for the lance, covered with painted gessoed canvas throughout, the inner face painted pale green and studded with a series of nails and a pair of staples for straps, the outer face with a white painted ground within a black border, decorated with a multi-branched flourish of pale green scrolling foliage heightened in black and involving varieties of red flowerheads, inscribed " BID MARIA -N-T" on a ribband, and in "aged" condition throughout. H.: 74.5 cm - W.: 61 cm. See the note under lot 185.