A COMPOSITE NORTH GERMAN VAMBRACE FOR THE RIGHT ARM, WITH ETCHED DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5
of fully articulated construction with tubular upper and lower cannons each formed at the outside of the arm with a longitudinal ridge, the former surmounted by a turner of three lames and the latter opening at the rear, and a couter of three lames, the central one giving issue at its front to a small flat oval wing and decorated at the point of the elbow with an embossed quatrefoil, the inside of the elbow protected by eleven inward-overlapping lames, the upper and lower edges of the vambrace decorated with file-roped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders enclosed to the inside by paired narrow grooves, and its surfaces finely etched with bands and borders of running foliage inhabited by herms masks, birds and a winged orb, all on a stippled and blackened ground (the inside of the cuff later pierced with a pair of wiring-holes)
48.5 cm; 16 1/8 in

Provenance
The Brunswick Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel
Schloss Marienburg