with skull boxed in four panels and rising at its apex to a point surmounted by an acorn finial, peak and bevor attached to the skull by common pivots, the latter (with two large patched repairs) shaped to the chin, secured to the skull at each side by a hook and pierced stud (the left hook incomplete), buffe attached to the bevor and formed of two plates, each supported at the right side by a sprung stud and pierced with a series of ventilation-slots at the right and ventilation-holes at the left, the main edges decorated throughout with roped turns accompanied by recessed borders, the whole retaining some black-from-the-hammer finish, and fitted with a brass inventory tag ‘B31’, 26.5 cm high

Provenance

Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.