Barbute, celata alla Veneziana, restaurée... - Lot 53 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Barbute, celata alla Veneziana, restaurée de façon experte, Italie vers 1450-70. An Italian Gothic barbute, celata alla Veneziana, an excavated find expertly restored, circa 1450-70. The skull originally of one-piece construction, rising to a medial ridge strongly pronounced over the crown and running from the nasal to a point above the nape, Y-shaped face-opening after the Corinthian style, the base of the skull turned outwards and with in-turned edge, the skull pierced for lining rivets in a band encircling the middle, struck with three marks in the Italian Gothic manner at the rear, and the face-opening fitted with a later reinforcing border retained by rivets. H.: 27 cm - L.: 26 cm - W.: 19 cm - Wt.: 2690 g. This barbute relates to a small group correctly named by Lionello Boccia from contemporary sources (see NORMAN, A.V.B., Wallace Collection Catalogues, European Arms and Armour Supplement, 1986, p.41, No. A75). Examples are found in a number of institutional collections, including the Wallace Collection, The Royal Armouries Leeds, the Musée de l'Armée Paris, and the Armeria Reale Turin.