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A Rare Italian Close-Helmet For The Tilt
Late 16th Century, Probably Milanese

Antique Arms and Armour
24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Italian Close-Helmet For The Tilt
Late 16th Century, Probably Milanese

Of bright iron, with heavy rounded one-piece skull with low comb (rust holed on one side) pierced with two small and one larger hole at a later date, bluntly pointed viser with hooked projection beneath, partly roped and formed centrally en suite with the comb above horizontal sights, pivoted at the same points as the upper- and lower-bevors (one bolt replaced, the other missing), the former prow-shaped, pierced on the left for a lifting-peg (missing) and on the right with a circular arrangement of round and keyhole-shaped breaths, two pierced holes above and a larger single hole beneath, probably for a spring-catch (missing), the latter shaped to the chin and with later hook catch on the right, the lower edges with a line of holes for lining rivets (missing) and with turning joint intended to engage over a gorget, finely decorated overall in the Pisan manner with broad bands of foliated strapwork knots against a granular ground and between borders of ropework, and retaining faint traces of original gilding in places (some wear overall, two areas of pitting on one side): on later circular wooden stand (2)
29 cm. high

Footnotes

The style of decoration suggests that this is the work of the famous Milanese armourer Pompeo della Cesa or his workshop

For a helmet of similar form formerly in the Collection of William Randolph Hearst see The Kretzschmar von Kienbusch Collection Of Armour And Arms, 1963, p. 70, no. 87, p. XLVII

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