Salade à ventaille, décorée à l'eau forte,... - Lot 94 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Salade à ventaille, décorée à l'eau forte, dite alla tedesca, dans le style italien vers 1510-15, époque XIXe siècle. An etched visored sallet alla tedesca, in the Italian style of circa 1510-15, 19th century, with broad skull of one piece rising to a low flat-topped comb, pierced for a crest and with three pairs of lace-holes, fitted with a reinforce over the brow, neck-guard of two articulated lames, and bellows visor pierced with bows of both slotted and circular breathes left and right and moving on a pair of pivoted hinges, the borders etched with panels of scrolling foliage on a contrasting blackened and stippled ground, and the lower neck lame with an angular inward turn at the edge. H.: 30.3 cm - L.: 29 cm - W.: 21 cm - Wt.: 2980 g. A closely comparable sallet is in the Musée de L'Armée, Paris (H 45). A further example, also similar, forming part of a North Italian export armour fluted and etched in the German style by Giovanni Angelo Missaglia is in the same collection (G. 8.). See LAKING, Guy Francis, A Record of European Armour and Arms, 1920, volume II, p.37, fig. 385. REVERSEAU, Jean-Pierre, Les armes et la vie, 1982, p.119.