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Lot Essay
Short-tailed sallets of this form, usually with moveable visors, were used mainly in the French-Flemish-English cultural area, though they were also imported into Germany. They do not appear to have been much used, if at all, in Italy, but were made there for export, and a number of examples bearing Milanese marks survive, for example at Churburg (inv. no. 23), and in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. no. II. 168, formerly Churburg inv. no. 61). They were also undoubtedly produced in the areas where they were most used, both by native armourers and immigrant Italians, and it is at present impossible, in the absence of identified marks, to distinguish their work from that of armourers working in Italy. The present helmet appears to be unique among surviving examples in having the visor made in one with the skull in what is usually regarded as the German fashion. Two very similar sallets are, however, represented in a miniature depicting the Chevalier Roland at Roncevaux in a French manuscript of 1469-73 in the Musée Condé at Chantilly (Ms. 722, fol. 111r.)
See Blair 1955, passim
Blair 1958, Frontispiece, pp. 105-7, fig. 105
Boccia & Coelho 1967, plate 92
Tower Armouries 1968, plates VII, LXXVI
Owen, plate VII
Churburg (inv. nos. 23, 61)
See Blair 1955, passim
Blair 1958, Frontispiece, pp. 105-7, fig. 105
Boccia & Coelho 1967, plate 92
Tower Armouries 1968, plates VII, LXXVI
Owen, plate VII
Churburg (inv. nos. 23, 61)