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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1640; Classification(s): armour, pot helmet, hammered, formed of a skull, a pivoted peak with triple-bar face-defence, a neck-defence of two lames, and a pair of pendant cheek-pieces; hammered, shaped, riveted, with embossed neck-defence and recessed borders; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.102-1933]
Description: Pot helmet, for use by an harquebusier. Formed of a skull, a pivoted peak with triple-bar face-defence, a neck-defence of two lames, and a pair of pendant cheek-pieces. The hemispherical skull is formed in two halves joined by a turn to the left along a low medial comb. The moderately broad, slightly downturned and obtusely-pointed peak is fitted on its underside with a face-defence formed of three bars of square section that are joined together in a forward-projecting scroll under the chin. The neck-defence is formed of two lames of which the longer upper one is embossed to simulate three lames. The cheek-pieces, which are now detached, have curved front and rear edges that converge towards their lower end where they are fitted with leather loops forming the ends of the lining-bands. The skull and neck-defence retain fragments of a fabric lining-band. The main edges of the helmet have plain inward turns accompanied, in the case of the peak and the neck-defence, by recessed borders. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | armour Unknown pot helmet | Temporal: | name=mid-17th Century; start=1640; end=1640 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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