formed in one piece with a rounded crown rising to a low medial ridge, extending downwards and flaring slightly outwards at each side to just above the level of the shoulders, projecting rearwards over the nape as a short integral "tail" and cut at the front with a broad rounded face-opening; its rear struck with the maker?s marks, a gothic letter ?M? beneath a split cross at each side, and the gothic letters ?MY? at the centre, its lower edge (internally reinforced) formed with a plain outward turn bordered by four later domed and fluted lining-rivets (two missing, the skull with one large internally-patched repair at its apex, three further smaller patched repairs, some plugged rivet-holes for the attachment of a lining and chin-straps, and its metal showing some delamination), 22.0 cm high Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent The marks are those of Tommaso Missaglia and his workshop before 1450. The same marks appear on the armour of Count Galeazzo d?Arco, preserved at Schloss Churburg (CHS21), and the associated right gauntlet of the Avant armour also formerly at Schloss Churburg and now preserved in the Glasgow Museums (AGM 39-65e). Tommaso dei Negroni da Ello, called Missaglia, is considered to be the founder of the great Milanese dynasty of armourers. He is first recorded around 1430 living in the parish of Santa Maria Beltrade in Milan when he contracted with the armourer Bellino Corio for the supply of armour to Tuscany and Romagna. In 1445 he made an armour for Lionello d? Este, Marquis of Ferrara and Modena, that was presented to the Bishop of Li?ge and also supplied armour to the Dukes of Gonzaga in Mantua. When the celebrated condottieri Francesco Sforza (1401-66) became Duke of Milan in 1450 he appointed Tommaso and his son court armourers. The following year Tommaso made an armour for the Duke. There was evidently a close relationship between the two men, Tommaso lent the Duke a Flemish bed for the visit of Alessandro Sforza in 1452 and there are a number of instances when the armourer gave financial support to the Duke, gaining considerable favour that was to continue with future generations. Tommaso?s success was considerable, his will records estates and possessions in the Duchy of Milan, Central Italy, France, Naples and Spain. See Gamber in Thomas 1977 pp. 990-4, Boccia 1982, p. 290, marks 116 and 117, Boccia & Coelho 1967 p. 138, Trapp 1929, p. 56. Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
formed in one piece with a rounded crown rising to a low medial ridge, extending downwards and flaring slightly outwards at each side to just above the level of the shoulders, projecting rearwards over the nape as a short integral "tail" and cut at the front with a broad rounded face-opening; its rear struck with the maker?s marks, a gothic letter ?M? beneath a split cross at each side, and the gothic letters ?MY? at the centre, its lower edge (internally reinforced) formed with a plain outward turn bordered by four later domed and fluted lining-rivets (two missing, the skull with one large internally-patched repair at its apex, three further smaller patched repairs, some plugged rivet-holes for the attachment of a lining and chin-straps, and its metal showing some delamination), 22.0 cm high Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent The marks are those of Tommaso Missaglia and his workshop before 1450. The same marks appear on the armour of Count Galeazzo d?Arco, preserved at Schloss Churburg (CHS21), and the associated right gauntlet of the Avant armour also formerly at Schloss Churburg and now preserved in the Glasgow Museums (AGM 39-65e). Tommaso dei Negroni da Ello, called Missaglia, is considered to be the founder of the great Milanese dynasty of armourers. He is first recorded around 1430 living in the parish of Santa Maria Beltrade in Milan when he contracted with the armourer Bellino Corio for the supply of armour to Tuscany and Romagna. In 1445 he made an armour for Lionello d? Este, Marquis of Ferrara and Modena, that was presented to the Bishop of Li?ge and also supplied armour to the Dukes of Gonzaga in Mantua. When the celebrated condottieri Francesco Sforza (1401-66) became Duke of Milan in 1450 he appointed Tommaso and his son court armourers. The following year Tommaso made an armour for the Duke. There was evidently a close relationship between the two men, Tommaso lent the Duke a Flemish bed for the visit of Alessandro Sforza in 1452 and there are a number of instances when the armourer gave financial support to the Duke, gaining considerable favour that was to continue with future generations. Tommaso?s success was considerable, his will records estates and possessions in the Duchy of Milan, Central Italy, France, Naples and Spain. See Gamber in Thomas 1977 pp. 990-4, Boccia 1982, p. 290, marks 116 and 117, Boccia & Coelho 1967 p. 138, Trapp 1929, p. 56. Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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