Rare pavois pour archer, portant les armes... - Lot 114 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Rare pavois pour archer, portant les armes de la ville de Winterthur, Suisse vers 1450-60. A rare Swiss archer's paVise, bearing the arms of the city of Winterthur, circa 1450-60. With a characteristic relatively narrow rectangular wooden body with wavy upper edge and rounded broad central gutter, the inner face covered with pigskin over a fi brous lining and retaining a pair of iron rings and two pairs of iron staples for enarms and straps, the outer face painted black on gessoed canvas, the inner lining folded over the front beneath a later grey painted border, the upper right quadrant painted with the arms of the town of Winterthur, and the upper left with the arms of The League of St. George (the two coats-of-arms refreshed). H.: 116.3 cm - W.: 41.5 cm. The city of Winterthur in Kanton Zurich fell under the control of the Habsburgs during The Old Zurich War (1436-50) and as a consequence was absorbed into the Knightly Order of The League of St. George until 1467. In that year the Habsburgs sold the city to the city of Zurich.