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A Rare Flemish Horseman's Pot
Possibly By Jacques Vois Of Brussels, Circa 1640

Antique Arms and Armour
30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Flemish Horseman's Pot
Possibly By Jacques Vois Of Brussels, Circa 1640

Of bright steel, with rounded two-piece skull embossed with gable-shaped motifs alternatively roped and all between incised lines, radiating downwards from a ribbed fig-shaped finial centred on a pierced star-shaped washer, the base encircled by a horizontal embossed band originally with a plume-holder at the rear, the front widening into a bluntly-pointed peak pierced for an adjustable curved bar-nasal with pierced ornamentally shaped upper finial and working on a wing-headed screw, neck-guard of four upward-lapping plates each with cusped upper edge, separate single-plate cheek-pieces (probably associated) each embossed with a raised circular floret over the ear and pierced with circular holes, the main edges turned and roped, and with numerous brass-capped dome-headed rivets throughout (minor holes and light pitting overall)
33 cm. high

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This helmet can be compared to several similar and related helmets belonging to early 17th century Flemish armours in the Royal Armoury, Madrid. One such armour, shown without its helmet in a portrait of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand (1609-41), brother of King Philip IV of Spain, and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, is almost certainly one documented as having been made for him by the armourer Jacques Vois of Brussels. See Claude Blair, 'Une énigme résolue: Jacques Vois, fabricant d'armures', le Musée d'Armes, 27e année, no. 92-93, September 1999, pp. 8-11; Conde V.do de Valencia de Don Juan, Catálogo Histórico-descriptivo de la Real Armeria de Madrid, inv. nos. A. 380-421, B. 21-23; and A.F. Calvert, Spanish Arms and Armour, pl. 64 (incorrectly captioned)

A helmet similar to this lot is in the Art Institute of Chicago (George F. Harding Collection no. 101, inv. no. 1982.2235). It is described and illustrated in Walter J. Karcheski, Jr., Arms and Armor in The Art Institute of Chicago, pp. 33, 120

For another example in exceptional condition, retaining its original lining and sold in these Rooms, see Fine Antique Arms and Armour from the Henk L. Visser Collection, 28 November 2007, lot 164

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