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Saddle (selle) (Back, detail)

Saddle (selle) (Back, detail)
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Subject
Secular.

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Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Inv. E.1939.65.bx

Bone;wood (birch)

Height: 343 mm
Width: 610 cm
Depth: 356 mm

Geometric and foliated decoration. Initials 'm' and 'n'.

Brydall 1903: German, late 15th century.
Scott 1980: Hungarian, late 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: Italian, German or Hungarian (Bohemian), 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red and green.

Reverse
Engraved on both sides.

Object Condition
Missing: some bone panels and lower part of the front section on either side.
The stirrup leather slots have, at some point, been filled with bone inserts.
Traces of a lining made of some fibrous material.

Comments
The rear surfaces of the saddle are decorated with sunbursts in gold paint.

Provenance
Collection of the Montgomerie family, earls of Eglinton and Winton, Eglinton Castle (Ayrshire): Eglinton Castle sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 25 July 1922, lot 11 (with ill.); bought by W. H. Fenton, a dealer acting for collector R. L. Scott; collection of Robert Lyons Scott (b. 1871, d. 1939), of Greenock: bequeathed in 1939, along with the rest of his collection of European arms and armours, to the people of Glasgow.

Bibliography
R. Brydall, 'Notice of Armour and Arms at Eglinton Castle, Three Scottish Swords, etc.', in Transactions of the Glasgow Archeological Society 4 (1903), pp. 38-48 (see p. 41, fig. 3).
F. Joubert, Catalogue of the Collection of European Arms and Armour formed at Greenock by R. L. Scott (Glasgow, 1924), vol. I, with ill.
S. Grancsay, 'An Early Sculptured Saddle', in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 32, no. 4 (1937), pp. 92-94 (p. 92, n. 4).
J. G. Scott, European arms and armour at Kelvingrove (Glasgow, 1980), p. 18.
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. 274, fig. 7 and p. 277, no. 12).


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