Belle reconstitution d'un pavois d'archer... - Lot 187 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Belle reconstitution d'un pavois d'archer portant les armes du duché de Bourgogne, dans le style de l'époque de la Guerre de Bourgogne (1474-77). An archer's pavise finely constructed in kipping with the style of The Burgundian-Swiss War of 1474-77, bearing the arms of the Duchy of Burgundy. With rectangular wooden body rounded at the corners and turned inwards slightly at the sides, with a shallow concave gutter down the middle and fitted with an iron spike over a short beak projecting at the base, covered in gessoed canvas throughout, the inner face painted white and fitted with iron staples and large nails attaching fragmented leather straps and a leather thong, the outer face painted with the arms of Burgundy, on a white ground sown with tongues of fire, a black-bordered red saltire quartering four fire-steels, and in "aged" condition throughout. H.: 120.5 cm - W.: 54 cm. A 15th century example is preserved in the Bernisches Historisches Museum, which seems to have provided inspiration for the present example. See WEGELI, Dr. Rudolf: Inventar der Waffensammlung des Bernischen historischen Museums in Bern, vol. 1, Schutzwaffen, 1920, cat. No. 25 (Staat Bern. Z. Kat=Nr.271), pp. 13-14, pl. III.