A cabasset for comments ... please

[ulfberth]

Here is one in the Metropolitan mMuseum , in polychrome rather unusual.
kind regards,
Ulfberth

[fernando]

Thank you so much for coming in Ulfberth
I have actually browsed the Met to know things about cabassets but didn't spot this magnificent example you now show us.
So i went back there and this tome i found it. I will add another picture, which i find interesting due to an inscription that reads "UBOLDO", a comune in Lombardia where most certainly this cabasset owner belonged. One thing the museum text doesn't mention and i take as most plausible is that, this ended up being a funerary item ... both for the Latin inscription and the fact that one doesn't go battling with such a delicately decorated helmet. The owner would become a preferential pray, as everyone would be trying to take him down and bring home such fine work of art


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[ulfberth]

Pikeman wearing cabasset

[ulfberth]

altough a bit later than your model , here are some musketeers wearing cabassets

[ulfberth]

a late 16th century half armor in Milanese style with a cabasset

[fernando]

Very good material;thanks for sharing .

[fernando]

Here we have, the whole plume holder in solid silver ... not silvered .
... and extremely cheap .


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