Pot helmet, for use by an harquebusier. Formed of a two piece skull with a broad, flat integral peak, joined by rivets along a low medial ridge, a one-piece neck-defence embossed to simulate three lames, a pair of pendant cheek-pieces and a sliding nasal-bar with retaining staple and wing-headed locking-screw. The neck-defence is repaired with a riveted internal patch of each of its upper corners. The forward-curving cheek-pieces narrow to their rounded lower ends. The left one shows traces of a recessed border that has subsequently been hammered out. The main edges of the helmet have plain inward turns.
The cheek-pieces are not a pair. They and the neck-defence are associated with the skull. The nasal-bar, retaining staple and locking-screw are modern restorations.
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Depth: 36.0 cm
Height: 28.5 cm
Weight: 1.63 kg
Width: 24.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
17th Century, Mid#
Production date:
circa
AD 1640
North European
The helmet is painted black over heavy pitting.
Decoration Border
Neck-defence
Parts
Hammered
: Formed of a two-piece skull with a broad, flat integral peak, joined by rivets along a medial ridge, a one-piece neck-defence embossed to simulate three lames, a pair of pendant cheek-pieces and a sliding nasal-bar with retaining staple and wing-headed locking-screw; hammered, shaped, riveted, with traces of a recessed border
Painting
Formed
Accession number: HEN.M.99-1933
Primary reference Number: 18551
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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