Pavois armorié non répertorié, apparemment... - Lot 98 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Pavois armorié non répertorié, apparemment destiné à un usage funéraire, dans le style de la fin du XVe siècle. An unrecorded armorial pavise, apparently intended for funerary use, in the manner of the late 15th century. With heavy wooden body of characteristic rectangular form constructed in three parts, with broad angular gutter rising to an out turned beak, the inner face painted brick red on leather nailed and glued directly onto the wooden core, and fitted with a pair of staples carrying a T-shaped handle orientated for carrying in the conventional manner, the outer face painted with an inverted coat-of-arms quartered in red, white, silver and blue, the ground of one field and the border of another gilt on a painted background, and the painted surface applied on gessoed canvas: sold together with original correspondence between the present owner and Dr. Ottfried Neubecker President of the German Heraldic Society, dated 1980, and in which is given details of the suggested provenance of this shield, together with an identification of the coat-of-arms. H.: 82 cm - W.: 49 cm. Provenance: Said to be from the collection of Alfons Flasshaar, and exchanged in trade with Dr. Paul, the well-known Berlin collector in 1953. The arms are said to be those of the Anguillara line of the Orsini family of Rome. It has been suggested that the coat-of-arms is inverted for the purposes of either being carried in funeral procession or forming part of a funerary achievement.