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A Rare Italian Bacinet Or Barbuta Visor
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A Rare Italian Bacinet Or Barbuta Visor

CIRCA 1350

Details
A Rare Italian Bacinet Or Barbuta Visor
Circa 1350
Of one piece, bulbous and shaped to cover a T-shaped face-opening, with an almost circular upper part pierced by a pair of flanged sights, then narrowing to form a long slightly incurving 'tongue' with straight sides and rounded lower edge, below the sights a medial ridge flanked by numerous small breaths, and at the top a riveted hinge, its upper part an iron strap pierced with two slots for attachment to flat hooks on the brow of a helmet (acid cleaned)
9in. (22.8cm.) high (excluding strap)
Provenance
Aroldi Collection, Milan
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Comparable visors are in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence and the Collection of the late Sir James Mann

See Aroldi, fig 64
Wallace Collection, vol. I, p. 96
Boccia 1980, plate 39

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