Reconstitution d'une rondache en bois peint... - Lot 186 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Reconstitution d'une rondache en bois peint provenant du butin de la Bataille de Giornico, dans le style milanais vers 1475, XIXe siècle. A painted circular wooden shield in the Milanese style of circa 1475, a representation of the Milanese booty taken at The Battle of Giornico, 19th century. With pine body with lightly bevelled outer edge, covered with leather over the outside, the outer surface painted with a green, red and white nebuly border enclosing a quartered coat-of-arms, two white vacant fields and two varus, in dark blue and white, and the inner face with leather enarms. Diameter: 49 cm. The battle of Giornico was fought in December 1478 between a Swiss force of six-hundred infantry and a Milanese army of ten-thousand. The Milanese were unable to manoeuvre in a narrow valley and suffered an overwhelming defeat at the hands of the Swiss located in the heights. Booty from the battle includes a number of shields of this type, now preserved in the Historisches Museum, Luzern. The present shield is closely inspired by two such shields, inv. No.s 39 and 49. See Waffen als Freiburg in den Bund der Eidgenossen trat, Historisches Museum, Murten, loan exhibition, 1981, cat. No.s 3 and 5.