Mézail à charnière médiane pour un rare type... - Lot 24 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Mézail à charnière médiane pour un rare type de bacinet italien ou BarButa, dans le style du XIVe siècle, XIXe siècle. A centrally-hinged visor for a rare type of Italian bascinet or BarButa, in the style of the mid-14th century, 19th century. Of rectangular form, rounded over the top and flared at the base, with a pair of boxed horizontal sights divided centrally, the middle area convex with a low medial ridge and pierced with diamond shaped arrangements of circular breathes left and right, and the top pierced with a pair of holes for fitting a hinge. H: 24.2 cm - W.: 16 cm - Wt.: 375 g. The closest comparable examples are one which was formerly in the collection of R.T. Gwynn, Epsom Surrey, and one which is preserved in the Bargello Museum, Florence, published by A.M. Aroldi in Armi e Armature Italiane fine al XVIII secolo, 1961, fig. 64.