Pauldron 1480-1500
Main plate from a pauldron. One piece with radiating flutes in the back, parallel horizontal flutes at the top and vertical flutes on the side. The front appears to have been unfluted. Together with a modern copy made as a mate. This was in the Granscay collection, the well made mate was likely made by the armourers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The original has significant modern patches riveted inside. These patches are typical of the 19th/early 20th c. patch work done on the Rhodes pieces that came through the Bachereau shop. I have generally assumed that this pauldron would have had underlapping plates above this plate and underlapping plates fitted to the arm below this plate. We can see the former lower edge had a cut out for the arm plates.
I have found a pair of pauldrons on the gothic armor normally stored at the City Museum of Vienna (Inv. No. 127.010-127.023 dated to 1485-90) that include main plates that are very similar to this one and which do not have upper plates, instead having lace holes in the main plates. I include pictures of them for comparison.
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