Hello

I bought the shield (and the swords) on a flea market in Brugge (Belgium) about 6 years ago.
I was hoping somebody would be able to help identify it. I am guessing it is a replica? What battle is depicted?


Thank you in advance :)


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Your pictures didn't turn out. You might want to try again. ..................McM

The swords are clearly modern. The shield is also modern, but the embossed designs may be partially based on some 16th- or 17th-century parade shields.

Pics of the back would help, that will tell us a bit more.

Its totally modern, but the shield is nice, unusually good copy of a parade one, early 16th cent. Might be an electrotype of an original even.

It is a quite faithful copy of a shield in the Louvre attributed to the French king Henry II (r. 1547-59). There is a very similar shield in the Met, almost certainly by the same artisan, but showing a different battle scene.

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/searc...;amp;pos=2

We could start a whole new topic on this. (He says, as he looks across the room at HIS wall-hanging shield and sword and axes.) I think there are a lot of these out there. We've all seen them. Mine is very similar, same bronze color, roped edges, two crossed axes and a central sword. Mine appears to show a man on a rearing horse about to spear an enemy on the ground. He appears to be dressed Roman-style. ..............................McM