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Probably Flemish
Master: Pair of vambraces Item: Left cuisse about 1540

Probably Flemish
Master: Pair of vambraces Item: Left cuisse about 1540


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Cuisse for the left leg, with a moderately short, medially ridged, gutter-shaped main plate formed at its convex upper edge with a bold, angular inward turn accompanied by a broad recessed border divided in two by an incised line. Fitted at its lower edge with a poleyn of six lames overlapping outwards from the third which is decorated medially with a roped rib and gives issue at its outside to a medially puckered oval wing decorated with a pair of embossed lobes. Similar to RCIN 72868.
Text adapted from Arms and Armour in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: European Armour, London, 2016 -
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