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In the flamboyant "Gothic" style. French, about 1480. Museum of the Rotunda, Woolwich

About 1480 Collection: Sir Edward Barry, Bart.

The chanfron has a distinct resemblance to that shown in the Carpaccio picture referred to. Many varieties of individual parts of horse armour of the latter part of the XVth century are extant, chiefly those of chanfrons. We illustrate a few in order to show the different types. In the Royal Armoury of Madrid there is a strange chanfron that was in the collection of arms and armour belonging to the Emperor Charles V (F 110). It is small and almost grotesque in appearance, bordered with a series of spikes and with a rondel of large proportions in the centre. Its date may be assigned to the last quarter of the XVth century (Fig. 994), as may also that of a really beautiful and more complete chanfron (F 113, Fig. 995) which also came from the same collection, and figures in the famous ''Inventario illuminado''. The central crest or rondel of this last-mentioned chanfron is now lost. In his fine catalogue of the Royal Madrid Armoury