Current Location: Gallery 31 (Armoury)
Maker(s)
Production:
Unknown
(Style of)
Entities
Categories
Description
Visor, of grotesque form, for parade use. Formed of an upper and a lower section joined by modern screws serving as pivots at their rear ends. The visor is embossed in the form of a beaked mask cut with apertures for the eyes and fretted with three quatrefoils at its lower end. The beak is formed of two separate plates riveted to the front of the upper and lower sections of the visor respectively. The arms of the visor are also formed of separate plates. The arms of the lower section have restored terminals.
Notes
History note: Mr Francis Henry Cripps-Day
Legal notes
Given by F.H. Cripps-Day
Measurements and weight
Weight: 0.7 kg
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1942-07-03)
by
Cripps-Day, Francis Henry
Dating
19th Century
Circa
1800
CE
-
1900
CE
Note
Similar beaked face-masks are shown worn by mummers at the court of Maximilian I in the Weisskunig of 1520.
The visor is bright with a heavy, artificially-induced patination overall.
This grotesque beak-shaped visor from a helmet was probably made in the 19th century but is very similar to beak-shaped masks worn by mummers at the court of Maximilian I in the early 16th century.
Components of the work
Decoration
Parts
Materials used in production
Steel
Techniques used in production
Hammered
: Formed of an upper and lower section joined by modern screws serving as pivots at their rear ends; hammered, shaped, riveted, with embossed decoration
Patinating
Formed
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.4-1942
Primary reference Number: 18465
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 19 April 2021
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
