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 decorated, as is indeed the whole suit to which it belongs, with engraving and with diamond-shaped projections embossed all over the surface, is to be seen in the Bargello Museum of Florence (Fig. 1214). Another casque, devoid of decoration, but belonging exactly to the family to which the Burges example is akin, is to be found in the Porte de Hal, Brussels; while in the Musée d'Artillerie are exhibited two that came from the Isle of Rhodes, one of which, H 38 (Fig. 1215), bearing a Milanese mark and dating about 1510, is almost salade-like in appearance. In the Wallace Collection (No. 234) is the example formerly in the collection of Sir Samuel Meyrick, and which he ascribed to the XVth century. In reality this specimen is even later than the few just mentioned, being probably Milanese of about 1520 (Fig. 1216).

North Italian, about 1510. H 38, Musée d'Artillerie

North Italian, about 1520. Wallace Collection (Laking Catalogue, No. 234)

The open casque, derived as it was from the form of the helmets of antiquity which appealed so strongly to the artists of the later Renaissance, soon became the subject of the most exuberant and grotesque schemes of decoration, noticeable not only in the matter of surface enrichment, but in the way in which the very