Salade, celata alla Veneziana, provenant... - Lot 167 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Salade, celata alla Veneziana, provenant très certainement de la forteresse des chevaliers de l'ordre de Saint Jean de Jérusalem à Rhodes, Italie vers 1450. An Italian sallet, celata alla Veneziana, almost certainly from the garrison of the Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Rhodes, circa 1450. Reconstructed in the museum workshop style characteristic of many of the pieces from Rhodes, with tall skull formed in one piece, rising to a medial ridge becoming more prominent over the crown, struck with two Italian Gothic marks on one side at the rear (rubbed and unidentifiable), T-shaped face-opening with a reinforcing border, studded with a band of lining rivets encircling the middle of the skull, pierced for a crest, and the edge with an inward turn over wire. H: 28 cm - L: 25.7 cm - W.: 22 cm - Wt.: 2885 g. Provenance: Almost certainly the armoury of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, Rhodes. For notes relating to the armoury at Rhodes see lot 48. For similar helmets see KARCHESKI, Walter J. Jr. & RICHARDSON, Thom, The Medieval Armour from Rhodes, 2000, pp.7-9.