Production: Unknown (Style of)
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.
History note: Mr Francis Henry Cripps-Day
Given by F.H. Cripps-Day
Weight: 0.7 kg
Method of acquisition: Given (1942-07-03) by Cripps-Day, Francis Henry
19th Century
Circa
1800
CE
-
1900
CE
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.
Decoration
Parts
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
Accession number: M.4-1942
Primary reference Number: 18465
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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