拍品 64
64
A PAIR OF TINNED IRON ROWEL SPURS, the heel-bands with pivoted ends shaped under the ankle-bone, and wide pierced crests, short downcurved necks and large multi-pointed rowels, decorated with elaborate piercings throughout (minor damage), and original buckles and hooks en suite, early 17th Century, probably French

细节
A PAIR OF TINNED IRON ROWEL SPURS, the heel-bands with pivoted ends shaped under the ankle-bone, and wide pierced crests, short downcurved necks and large multi-pointed rowels, decorated with elaborate piercings throughout (minor damage), and original buckles and hooks en suite, early 17th Century, probably French
7in. (2)

拍品专文

A number of similarly-decorated spurs are in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Riggs Collection)

See Equestrian Equipment. A loan exhibition at the J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 1955, Nos. 103, 105