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 most accurately rendered; while it is remarkable to note that every head-piece depicted is a salade of the Italian type with the exception of that depicted on the central figure (Fig. 345), who wears a helmet resembling the chapel-de-fer worn with a strong buffe. In one of the illustrations showing these reliefs (Fig. 346) the salade which the knight immediately on the left of the central figure is represented as wearing has a peculiar interest, as it shows an outer covering to the helmet in the form of a lion's scalp, such as can be noted covering an actually extant salade (Fig. 355). The representation of a salade very like the Rotunda example is to be seen in a picture by Martino di Battista in the Imperial Picture Gallery, Vienna, where a

young Venetian nobleman is portrayed holding just such a salade, and resting it partly on a balcony in front of him (Fig. 347). In this picture the skull-piece of the salade is encircled with a gilt metal wreath of oak foliage. To find mid-XVth century Italian salades decorated with applied gilded bronze ornaments is not uncommon; although in nearly every case the ornamentation was added at a later date, perhaps in the XVIth or even in the XVIIth century, when these really business-like head defences were sometimes enriched by these additions for use in pageants.

The late Mr. Morgan Williams, in his fine armoury at St. Donat's Castle, had a salade (Fig. 348) covered with gilt bronzework and velvet additions of the early years of the XVIIth century. He had these additions removed and then found himself the possessor of a fine salade of mid