IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18364 accession number: M.4A-1939 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 14 April 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sallet, with a moveable visor, for heavy field use. Formed of a one-piece skull with a long 'tail' over the neck, and a pivoted demi-visor. The skull has a rounded crown with a broad, medial keel at its apex, narrowing to a medial ridge at the front and rear. The centre of the keel is pierced with a large, circular hole between a pair of rivet-holes for the attachment of a threaded boss to receive a crest. The lower edge of the skull has a plain outward turn except at the front where it is cut away as a shallow face-opening that widens towards the bottom. The straight upper edge of the face-opening, which is flanged outwards very slightly and decorated at its edge with a single incised line, forms the upper edge of the vision-slit. Just above the level of the vision-slit, the skull is encircled by a series of twenty-one lining-rivets beneath a single, decorative incised line. The front nine rivets are externally flush with flat internal heads, while the remainder are round-headed with circular internal washers of which two are missing. The rivets and washers are all replaced, as are the buff-leather lining-band and the buff-leather loops for chin-straps at either side that they retain. A similar pair of round-headed rivets with circular internal washers retaining a buff-leather suspension-loop within the nape are likewise replaced. Five pairs of small holes around the lower edge of the skull and another to either side of the face-opening served to sew in the lining. A single hole at either side of the face-opening and a corresponding hole at either side of the visor, which served as construction-holes during manufacture, have been plugged with rivets. At the right lower corner of the face-opening is a push-button-operated spring-catch that engages a hole in the right lower corner of the visor. The mushroom-shaped push-button is probably replaced, as are the pair of small, round-headed rivets that retain the flat internal spring. The visor is attached by a pair of large, riveted, round-headed pivots. Its lower edge has a plain outward turn matching and continuing that of the skull. The straight, central section of the upper edge of the visor forms the lower edge of the vision-slit. It is flanged inwards and projects forward very slightly as a 'lip'. The rear of the visor is decorated at either side with a cusp. The upward-angled arms of the visor are decorated at their terminals with scalloped edges, and further down with a single incised line, overlaying that which encircles the skull. Bought together with the bevor M.4B-1939 title: sallet NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sold from the collection of Duke Victor von Ratibor of Schloss Grafenegg, by Gallerie Fischer, Lucerne, 2 September 1933, lot 10, pl. 9, for SF. 3,000-00. Lent to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Major H. D. Barnes, O.B.E., F.S.A., August 1936. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, National Art-Collections Fund and Mr E. Evelyn Barron, M.A., L.L.G., Peterhouse STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18364 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of a one-piece skull with a long 'tail' over the neck, and a pivoted demi-visor; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with incised lines and scalloped edges hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1480 - 1490 creation date earliest: 1480 creation date latest: 1490 culture: 15th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 38.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 23 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 2.575 dimension: Width units: cm value: 21.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Gothic Art CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Thirty-first Annual Report, for the Year 1939 National Art-Collections Fund Thirty-sixth Annual Report 1939 The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey The Armoury of the Castle of Churburg Die Innsbrücker Plattnerkunst Antiche Armi dal Sec. IX al XVIII Già Collezione Odescalchi National Art Collections Fund Forty-Fifth Annual Report 1948 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_4A_20_26_20B_1939.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 521 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_4A_20_26_20B_1939.jpg height: 729 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_4A_20_26_20B_1939.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 521 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_4A_20_26_20B_1939.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/467/53/large_M_4A_1939_M_4B_1939_200809_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1493 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/467/53/mid_M_4A_1939_M_4B_1939_200809_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 729 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.4A-1939_M.4B-1939_200809_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/467/53/preview_M_4A_1939_M_4B_1939_200809_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/467/53/M_4A_1939_M_4B_1939_200809_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 4020 pixels width: 2757 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/879/large_M_4A_1939_M_4B_1939__200809_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 1493 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/879/mid_M_4A_1939_M_4B_1939__200809_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 729 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/879/M_4A_1939_M_4B_1939__200809_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 4020 pixels width: 2757 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/879/preview_M_4A_1939_M_4B_1939__200809_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 250 pixels