Museum's opinion 2012: German or Tyrolean, c. 1450.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.
Reverse
Engraved on all sides.
Provenance
Collection of Count Girolamo di Possenti: sale, Florence, 1 April 1880; collection of Marquess D., Genoa (until 1888). Collection of Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, duke of Dino (bought before 1901); purchased in 1904 thanks to the Rogers Fund.
Bibliography
J. Schlosser, 'Elfenbeinsättel des ausgehenden Mittelalters', in Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, 15 (1894), p. 267, no. 10. Fully accessible online as part of the Heidelberger historische Bestände:
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jbksak1894/0318 [accessed 24/07/2013].
S. Grancsay, 'An Early Sculptured Saddle', in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 32, no. 4 (1937), pp. 92-94 (p. 93, n. 6). Accessible online on The Metropolitan Museum of Art website in collaboration with JSTOR.
K. Watts, 'Une selle médiévale d'Europe Centrale au Royal Armouries', in Armes et cultures de guerre en Europe centrale (XVe siècle - XIXe siècle), Les Cahiers d'études et de recherches du musée de l'Armée 6 (2005-2006), pp. 49-66 (p. 53, n. 4).
M. Verő, 'Bemerkungen zu den beinsätteln aus der Sigismundzeit', in Sigismundus rex et imperator: Kunst und Kultur zur Zeit Sigismunds von Luxemburg 1387-1437, exhibition catalogue, Budapest and Luxemburg, 2006, pp. 270-278 (p. 278, no. 17).
All images on this website are made available exclusively for scholarly and educational purposes and may not be used commercially.