EARLY 17TH CENTURY

细节

A French Close-Helmet
Early 17th Century
With fluted two-piece skull with piped comb pierced with a horizontal rivet for a funerary crest-spike (missing), and iron plume-holder at the base, pointed visor with single horizontal centrally-divided sight (lifting-peg missing), the upper part fluted en suite, prow-shaped upper-bevor notched for the peg and with a ring of small circular breaths on each side, and lower-bevor shaped to the chin and pivoted at the same points, the external edges of all three engrailed, each lobe with a central stamped circle and dot, and pivot-hook locking catches (one hook missing), single gorget-plate at front and rear, the rear one with a turned edge and recessed border followed by incised engrailing en suite with the other edges (the front plate replaced), and domed iron lining-rivets, the surface heavily rust patinated throughout
11½in. (29.2cm.) high

注意事项

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拍品专文

The former existence of a funerary crest spike on the helmet and the state of its surface indicate that it at one time formed part of a funerary achievement in an English church

For comparable French helmets see J.-P. Reverseau, 'The Classification of French Armour by Workshop Styles, 1500-1600', in R. Held (ed.), Art, Arms and Armour, 1979. figs. 17 and 38