拍品專文
This is an example of an extremely rare type of helmet known only from two other examples and an illustration, all with English associations. The other examples are respectively in Godshill Church, Isle of Wight, and Stourton Church, Wiltshire, and the illustration is in the well-known English manuscript life of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick in the British Library, known as the Warwick Pageant which dates from circa 1483-90 (plate XL). The form of the skulls of all the helmets is closely similar to that on "Peeping Tom's" sallet in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, and a funerary helmet in Harefield Church, Middlesex. Both of these sallets bear marks of Italian type, with split crosses over the letters 'ro', perhaps those used by Martin Rondelle, a Milanese armourer working in Bruges, who is recorded as supplying armour to the English Paston family in 1473. But see also the discussion of Rondelle's mark under lot 68
See Warwick Pageant, plate XL
Laking 1920, vol. II, pp. 23-6, fig. 365, pp. 41-2, fig. 391, pp. 92-94, fig. 445 J, and vol. V, pp. 185, 212, 266, figs. 1631 and 1794
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See Warwick Pageant, plate XL
Laking 1920, vol. II, pp. 23-6, fig. 365, pp. 41-2, fig. 391, pp. 92-94, fig. 445 J, and vol. V, pp. 185, 212, 266, figs. 1631 and 1794
Barnes, passim