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Visored Sallet
The collection record classifies this work as arms and armor. It is dated c. 1490–1500. Recorded culture or place: Germany.
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- Museum title
- Visored Sallet
- Date
- c. 1490–1500
- Culture / origin
- Germany
- Materials and technique
- steel
- Dimensions
- Overall: 21 x 25 x 42 cm (8 1/4 x 9 13/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 2014.393
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
The sallet is a partly open-face helmet common in Europe during the 1400s, used in both equestrian and infantry versions. Sallets with movable visors, like this example, are considered to be more technically and visually interesting; beautifully streamlined, it assumes a highly sculptural teardrop shape. Originally it would have been part of a complete suit of armor. The sallet became the quintessential helmet form of the late Middle Ages and is frequently represented in medieval miniatures and woodcuts.
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