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Fig. 365. Salade
French fashion, but probably of English workmanship, about 1460-70 St. Mary's Hall, Coventry
(a) Profile view (b) Front view
the point of view of its quality of make, which indeed is somewhat mediocre,
but because it is easily accessible for study. The skull has a slight ridge
formed to an acute angle, The ocularium is 1-1/2 inches from the lower edge
of the helmet. The row of rivets which runs round the centre of the skull
served for the attachment of a strap, to which the lining could be sewn.
We are inclined to consider this salade, which was one of those formerly
in the collection of the Comte de Nieuwerkerke, as of German manufacture
and as dating probably within the last years of the first half of the XVth
century. Next we will refer to the salade in the bequest made by the late
Mr. W. Burges to the British Museum, which is also German, and of
about the same period. Its workmanship, like that of the Wallace specimen,
is not of the best; but its general outline is more vigorous, and its greater
depth lends it an appearance of solidity (Fig. 367). In the collection of the
Baron de Cosson is a salade much like the British Museum example, but
it is of far finer workmanship, though a little later in date. It was purchased
from the Soeter Collection, Augsburg. It appears to be of German
make; though it is now associated with a bevor which is apparently of North
Italian workmanship (Fig. 368). The Artillery Museum in the Rotunda at
Woolwich shows a more unusual salade, remarkable for its great depth and
for the very slight projection of its tail (Fig. 369). If it be compared with the
three salades just described, which are of the less uncommon "tailed" order