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Description
'Spanish' morion, for infantry use, with etched decoration. Formed in one piece with an almond-shaped crown that rises to a backward-directed stalk at its apex, and a flat narrow, integral brim that projects to a rounded point front and rear. The brim has a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a narrow recessed border. The base is encircled by fourteen holes for lining-rivets, of which seven are occupied by modern rivets with flat rosette washers of brass. The helmet lacks its cheek-pieces and a plume-holder is now represented only by a pair of holes at the nape.
The crown of the helmet is decorated with four vertical bands of trophies and fabulous animals on a stippled and blackened ground, repeated in a narrow band around the base of the crown and on the brim. The band around the base of the crown is bordered at its lower edge by an even narrower band of guilloche.
Notes
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
Legal notes
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Measurements and weight
Depth: 30.9 cm
Height: 25.1 cm
Weight: 1.38 kg
Width: 23.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1933-03-16)
by
Henderson, James Stewart
Dating
16th Century, Late
Circa
1580
-
1590
Note
North Italian
The helmet is bright with a variable light to medium patination overall. It has been pierced with several later holes and shows some rust perforations near the apex of the crown as well as cracks in the edge of the brim.
Components of the work
Rosette Washers
composed of
brass (alloy)
Border
Decoration
Ground
Parts
Materials used in production
Steel
Techniques used in production
Hammered
: Formed in one piece with an almond-shaped crown that rises to a backward-directed stalk at its apex, and a flat narrow, integral brim that projects to a rounded point front and rear; hammered, shaped, riveted, with a recessed border, with etched and file-roped decoration on a blackened ground
Patinating
Forming
Inscription or legends present
Identification numbers
Accession number: HEN.M.45-1933
Primary reference Number: 18314
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
