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c. 1460

Visored Sallet

Artist/maker unknown

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This remarkably heavy sallet was probably captured in combat, as in the early twentieth century it was in the arsenal of the Ottoman sultans in the former church of Saint Irene in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey.

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Artist/maker unknown, Visored Sallet, c. 1460 | Philadelphia Museum of Art