'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.
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Depth: 30.9 cm
Height: 25.1 cm
Weight: 1.38 kg
Width: 23.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
16th Century, Late
Circa
1580
-
1590
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.
Rosette Washers
composed of
brass (alloy)
Border
Decoration
Ground
Parts
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
Accession number: HEN.M.45-1933
Primary reference Number: 18314
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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