IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18355 accession number: M.1.5-1936 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 14 April 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 'Venetian' sallet, for field use, later adapted to pageant use. Of deep, one-piece construction with a rounded, medially-ridged crown, a short 'tail' over the neck, and a wide, arched face-opening narrowing slightly towards the bottom. The apex of the crown is pierced with a large keyhole slot for the attachment of a crest. The base of the crown is encircled by thirteen holes for lining-rivets. Beneath them at either side are a further pair of rivet-holes for the attachment of a pair of chin-straps. A pair of rivet-holes also exist at each of the upper corners of the face-opening for the attachment of a reinforcing-strip. Three holes at the brow, two at the nape and another eight at the lower edge of the helmet have been pierced subsequent to manufacture for the attachment of applied ornament. The lower edge of the helmet and of the face-opening have been trimmed at the same time. title: 'Venetian' sallet NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Eglinton Collection, sold Christie's, London, 25 July 1922, lot 21, £131.5s. Mrs E.W. Stead & Mr. Gilbert Stead of Dalston Hall, Cumberland LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs E.W. Stead & Mr. Gilbert Stead STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18355 TECHNIQUES ---------- of deep, one-piece construction with a rounded, medially-ridged crown, a short 'tail' over the neck, and a wide, arched face-opening narrowing slightly towards the bottom; hammered, shaped, riveted hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- air-cooled TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1450 - 1460 creation date earliest: 1450 creation date latest: 1460 culture: 15th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 24 dimension: Height units: cm value: 26 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 2.075 dimension: Width units: cm value: 19 CITATIONS -------- The Knight and the Blast Furnace, A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages and the Modern Period The Armoury of the Castle of Churburg Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour L'Arte dell'Armatura in Italia Armi Antiche dal Museo Civico L. Marzoli The Armoury at Konopiste Castle Ancient Italian Pieces in the Kienbusch Collection ---