PAIR OF ETCHED FINGERED GAUNTLETS
LATE 16TH / EARLY 17TH CENTURY
£756
Auction: Select Property from Towie Barclay Castle, Aberdeenshire - 27th March 2024 at 10am
Description
probably Southern German, each formed of a long flared and pointed cuff with a short fixed separate inner plate, both plates decorated at their upper edges with a file-roped inward turns accompanied by etched borders and small bosses, four metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-plate, the lower end of which is shaped between the fingers, four scaled finger-defences and a fixed angled thumb-defence, the front plates decorated with an etched foliate front band flanked by rope twist borders
Dimensions
38cm long, 12cm wide
Provenance
Karen and the late Marc Ellington, Towie Barclay Castle, Aberdeenshire