**A NORTH EUROPEAN CUIRASSIER'S CLOSE HELMET, PROBABLY
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**A NORTH EUROPEAN CUIRASSIER'S CLOSE HELMET, PROBABLY DUTCH OR ENGLISH, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
with two-piece skull joined along the crest of moderately high medial comb, pierced at several points with transverse holes perhaps for lacing up a plume, visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to the skull by common domed pivots, the restored visor sloping forward to a stepped, centrally-divided vision-slit, and the restored upper bevor of blunt prow-shaped form pierced at each side with nine circular ventilation-holes in rosette-formation, and a single deep gorget-plate front and rear (the former patched at its left end and the latter pierced at its centre with a later sub-rectangular hole, probably for mounting-purposes), their lower edges formed with plain inward turns accompanied by recessed borders, and the subsidiary edges of the helmet decorated with single incised lines
40 cm; 15 3/4 in high
Provenance
The armoury of the Earls of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire, sold Sotheby's, London, 23 June 1921 and 14 June 1923
Henry Furmage, London, 7 August 1930
JWHA Inv. No. 1230
£2000-2500
with two-piece skull joined along the crest of moderately high medial comb, pierced at several points with transverse holes perhaps for lacing up a plume, visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to the skull by common domed pivots, the restored visor sloping forward to a stepped, centrally-divided vision-slit, and the restored upper bevor of blunt prow-shaped form pierced at each side with nine circular ventilation-holes in rosette-formation, and a single deep gorget-plate front and rear (the former patched at its left end and the latter pierced at its centre with a later sub-rectangular hole, probably for mounting-purposes), their lower edges formed with plain inward turns accompanied by recessed borders, and the subsidiary edges of the helmet decorated with single incised lines
40 cm; 15 3/4 in high
Provenance
The armoury of the Earls of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire, sold Sotheby's, London, 23 June 1921 and 14 June 1923
Henry Furmage, London, 7 August 1930
JWHA Inv. No. 1230
£2000-2500
Buyer's Premium
- 20%
**A NORTH EUROPEAN CUIRASSIER'S CLOSE HELMET, PROBABLY
Estimate £2,000 - £2,500
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