Rare casque clos anglais, à la manière de... - Lot 131 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Rare casque clos anglais, à la manière de... - Lot 131 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Rare casque clos anglais, à la manière de l'atelier royal de Greenwich, en grande partie vers 1590, la ventaille de joute étant une addition moderne. A rare English close helmet in the manner of the Royal Workshop at Greenwich, comprehensively circa 1590, the bevor of tilting type and a modern addition. With one-piece skull rising to prominent cabled comb, pierced with pairs of laceholes at the rear, the borders with incised double lines, the rear of the skull fitted on the left-hand side with a pierced projecting stud for attaching a grandguard, the base with roped flange for turning on the gorget, the border recessed over the face-opening and with turned roped edge, fitted with hinged cheek-pieces of armet construction with recessed upper border matching the skull, closed by a hook-and-eye at the front and a pair of studs projecting at the upper edges, pivoted visor formed with a sharp prow and a pair of sights, the linear borders matching both the skull and the cheekpieces, and fitted with an expertly reconstructed tilting bevor, the latter pierced with large circular breathes on the right, and locked by a pivoted bar engaging a springcatch and peg each fitted to the visor. H: 28 cm - L: 36.5 cm - W.: 22 cm - Wt.: 3540 g. This helmet, after the addition of a tilting bevor, closely resembles a Greenwich tilting helmet preserved in the Royal Armouries Leeds (II. 78), and another presented on a plain tilting armour (II. 40), also in Leeds. Its design and construction recall the helmet on the armour (II. 81) made in 1575 for Sir Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the tilting helmet (IV. 43) made in 1585 for Sir Henry Lee, Master of the Royal Armoury (1578-1611) and Champion of the Queen (1559-1590). See, DUFTY, Arthur Richard, European armour in the Tower of London, 1968, pl. XCV, XLVI, XLIV.
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