Live Auction 1555European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries Part I
A NORTH ITALIAN LION-MASK BURGONET FROM A PARADE ARMOUR
Lot 172

A NORTH ITALIAN LION-MASK BURGONET FROM A PARADE ARMOUR

CIRCA 1560-80

Closed30 September 2014

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A NORTH ITALIAN LION-MASK BURGONET FROM A PARADE ARMOUR
CIRCA 1560-80
Of one piece, the front of the skull embossed and engraved to represent a lion-mask with embossed and incised mane rising to a comb behind, the peak and neck-defence each with turned roped border and retaining slight traces of original gilded finish, a shaped plume-holder riveted to the base of the comb
Approx. 11 in. (28 cm.) high

Specialist note

Full 'Lion' parade armours are respectively retained in the collections of the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. no. II.89) and the Musée de l'Armée, Paris (inv. no. G 50), the latter attributed to Francis I and made by the famed Milanese armourer Giovani Paolo Negroli.