Reconstitution d'un armet à rondelle, dans... - Lot 51 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Reconstitution d'un armet à rondelle, dans le style italien vers 1450. A reconstruction of a rare Italian armet, in the style of circa 1450. Built on a helmet skull, possibly 16th or 17th century, the rear now extended to form a characteristic narrow plate over the nape, struck with a spurious armourer's mark and slotted for a crest, fitted with a brow plate with cusped inner-edge and in-turned lower edge, a pair of pivoted hinges carrying a blunt visor of "sparrows' beak" type, a pair of large cheek-pieces hinged behind the visor pivots and locked by a stud and a turning-pin at the front, the cheek-pieces with out turned edges and studded with vervelles for fitting a camail, the rear joint of the cheek-pieces protected by a rondelle guard, and complete with a iron spring-peg for a crest. H: 27.5 cm - L: 31 cm - W.: 21 cm - Wt.: 3290 g.