IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18335 accession number: M.13-X DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 14 December 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 'Venetian' sallet, for field use. Of deep, one-piece construction with a rounded, medially-ridged crown, a short 'tail' over neck, and a T-shaped face-opening reinforced around its margin with a flat strip attached by seven round-headed rivets. The lower edge of the helmet has a plain outward turn. The base of the crown is encircled by eighteen externally-flush lining rivets. Beneath them at either side are a further pair of externally flush rivets for the attachment of a pair of chin-straps. A pair of holes high up the front of the crown and a single hole at the rear of the crown may have served to secure a crest. title: 'Venetian' sallet NOTES ----- type: history note value: Possibly Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Possibly J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18335 TECHNIQUES ---------- of deep, one-piece construction with a rounded, medially-ridged crown, a short 'tail' over neck, and a T-shaped face-opening reinforced around its margin with a flat strip attached by seven round-headed rivets; hammered, shaped, riveted hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1450 - 1460 creation date earliest: 1450 creation date latest: 1460 culture: 15th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 26.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 28.0 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 2.82 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20.0 CITATIONS -------- A Handbook to the Collection of Antiquities and Other Objects Exhibited in the Fitzwilliam Museum European Armour A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries The Armoury of the Castle of Churburg Three Armours in the Scott Collection Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour European Armour in the Tower of London Armi Antiche dal Museo Civico L. Marzoli A Barbuta at Glasgow: A Problem of Identification The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armour from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Ancient Italian Pieces in the Kienbusch Collection ---