Archer's Sallet

1450-1470 (Late Medieval)

16.5 cm 22.7 cm 26.7 cm

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A sallet is a light, semi-open helmet popular in the 15th century. Its rounded skullpiece was sometimes fitted with a visor, although this is not true of those used by archers, who weren't normally involved in close combat. They are distinguished from the even simpler, earlie...

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Sale, American Art Association, New York, November 14, 1921, no. 93; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1921 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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