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 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. 293 excellent specimen — a statuette about 2^ inches liigli, showing the arrangement of the wings very distinctly. Of the winged casque, as revived in Tudor days, a good example occurs among the engravin"-3 on the rich armour of Henry VIII. in the Tower : it appears on the poitrail of the horse, and is worn hy one of the Cqards in the group of ' St. George before Diocletian.' ' In the same gallery will be found a pair of these wings (the helmet wanting) : they are of steel, and the surface is covered with engraving. The winged helmet is represented also in the early tapestry at Hampton Court ; once, in the portion under the Minstrel Gallery, and in two places, on the walls of the Presence Chamber. The early portion of this very interesting tapestry deserves to be engraved, with the greatest care ; it is equal in value to any of the examples published by Jubinal, and it has suffered much from time and wanton injury, > " The masks of helmets are found in the form of human faces, of animals and grotesques. Of such helmets (without wings) we may instance the cxan^ples in the Ambras collection at Vienna : the visors represent human faces, and, in one case, the crown of the casque is made to resemble a curly head of hair. See the ' WafFen und Riistungcn ' of Schrenck (Plates 23, 29, 40, and 107). In the Madrid Armory is another helmet, of which the visor and crown have the form of the human face and hair : it ia said to have belonged to Charles V., and has on the gorget in relief the Collar of the Golden Fleece. This is figured in the ' Armeria Real do Madrid.' In the Musce de I'Artillerie of Paris are two helmets with face visors : one of which is engraved by M. Allou in the eleventh volume of the ' Mcmoires de la Socictc dcs Antiquaires de France : ' the other is de- scribed imder No. 15 of the ' Casques ' of the Paris Catalogue. Plate 30 of Carre''3 'Panoplie' gives us the armour of the 'Chevalier aux Lions,' preserved at Chantilly ; of which ' le timbre du heaume, la mentonnicre, les ventail et nazal, est forme du muflc d'un monstrueux lion, dont les crins flottent en place de crete et tombent sur le derriere.' See also the ' Weiss Kunig,' where a group of armed men have headpieces with mask visors. " The helmets in which the mask and the wings are combined are of greater rarity. A fine example is that attributed to Albert Marquis of Brandenburg, in the Ambras Collection. The wings here are nearly circular, but with jagged edges : the masque is a grotesque, half human, half eagle. The suit to which it belongs has much resemblance to the engraved suit of Henry VIII. in the Tower, and has been figured by Hefner in his Trachten and by Schrenck in his Armamentarium. In the Royal Armory of Madrid is a second specimen : the visor here is a grotesque head, but the wings have the form of those of a bird. A plate of it is given in the Armeria Ileal of Jubinal. " The Tower example (recently added to that collection) is a steel burgonet, formed (exclusive of the wings) in four parts. The features of the visor are in very high relief, and afford an admirable specimen of repousse work. The crown of the helmet has an ogee outline, forming a peak at the summit, and the dome of it is ornamented with an escallop 5 See the Memoir by the late Sir Samuel Meyrick, Archseologia, vol. xxii., p. lOG. The subject above x'efcrred to is represented, Plate 10. VOL. IX. Q Q