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A shield from the De Walden collection of classical arms and armour
- analysis of a pastiche.
Yaron Ever-Hadani and Mary Davis (National Museums & Galleries
of Wales)
Seventy-nine pieces of Greek, Etruscan, Italo-Celtic and Roman armour
from
the Howard de Walden Collection of Early European Arms and Armour were
initially loaned and later bequeathed to the National Museums and Galleries
of Wales. They were collected by the 8th Baron Howard de Walden in the
first
half of the twentieth century for display in his own home; he was
particularly interested in art, genealogy, heraldry and armour.
Much of the collection was surveyed and repackaged in the early 1990s.
X-radiography by conservation staff revealed that the collection was
comprised not only of original artefacts, but also of pastiches made from
different pieces of antique metal, and complete fakes. This paper discusses
the composition of one such pastiche and the various analyses undertaken
to
discover more about the object.
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