Right Vambrace (arm defense), ca.1500-20

  • Austrian
  • German

Steel, leather

  • Overall: 19 3/16 × 5 7/8 × 4 5/16 inches, 2.7 pounds (48.7 × 14.9 × 11 cm, 1.2 kg) Overall circumference: 14 1/4 inches (36.2 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Welker

56.124.6A

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Until 1931, Unknown private collection

July 14 1931, purchased at [Christie's, London] by William Randolph Hearst [1869–1951], Saint Donat's Castle (Llantwitt Major, Wales). 1951, by descent to Hearst's British executors, the National Magazine Company, Ltd. (London, England) 1956-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA).

Bulletin of the DIA 36, no. 3 (1956-57): p. 69 (ill.). Pignataro, Megan Reddicks, Livingston Bailin, and Chassica Kirchhoff. “Divesting and Dismembering.” Bulletin of the DIA 97, no. 1 (2023): pp. 66–83.

Austrian; German, Right Vambrace (arm defense), ca.1500-20, Steel, leather. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Welker, 56.124.6A.