Cleveland Museum of Art
Pommel Plate of a Saddle (from the "Flechtband" Garniture of Rudolf II and Archduke Ernst, Vienna)
Anton Peffenhauser
- Date
- c. 1571
- Medium
- blued, etched, and gilded steel
- Culture
- Germany, Augsburg, 16th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This plate, one of two was once part of a saddle, are from tournament armor for man and horse made for the sons of Emperor Maximilian II, archdukes Rudolf and Ernst. Most of the remaining elements of this armor are still in the collections of the Imperial Armouries in Vienna. The decorative pattern (in the imperial colors of black and gold) forms elegant knots, with distinctive foliage and hop sprigs filling the loops. Once part of a saddle, this plate protected the rider's thigh.
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