Identifier: handbookoforname1900meye (find matches)
Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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cated cone, rests on the shoulders,(figs. 2—4). The Tilting - helmet (figs. 6—9), is more elegant thanthe heaume; it fits better to the form of the head, and has a slit forthe purpose of vision, (fig. 5 shows an intermediate form between theHeaume and the Tilting - helmet). The latest form is that with thebarred Visor (figs. 10—11). This fits closer to the head than theTilting-helmet; the slit has been enlarged to a broad opening, guardedeither by vertical bars or by a grating. The Ar-met (fig. 12), andother helmets, like the Burgonet, are unheraldic; and are seldom seenin Arms. Speaking generally: the Salade belongs to the 13th; the Heaumeto the 14th; the Tilting-helmet to the 15th and 16th cenkiries; theVizor also belongs to the two latter centui-ies. The first three helmetsare known as closed, the Vizor-helmet as open. Plate 286. The Helmet. 1. Salade, first half of 14 th century, Armory, Berlin, 11^/4 ins. high.2—3. Heaume, front and side view, 14 th century. HERALDEY. 517
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Forms of the Helmet. Plate 286. 518 Forms of the Helmet — Helmet Trappings. 4. Heaume, second half of the 14 th century, from the collec-tion ofGustav von Decker, Berlin, 14^2 iiis. high, (Warnecke). 5. Heaume, approximating to the form of the Tilting-helmet,14 th century. 6—9. Tilting helmets.10—11. Helmets with barred Vizors.12. Armet. Helmet Trappings. (Plates 287—288.) Plates 287 and 288 show the Helmet in conjunction with thecoat of Arms. As the Helmet was only worn by knights, it belongs,strictly speaking, only to the coats of knightly families; towns andcorporations, the clergy, and ladies, do not bear the helmet, althoughthere are exceptions. As regards style, the Helmet should match the form of the Shield.The Salade and the Heaume belong to the Triangular - shield: theTilting - helmet also belongs to these and still more to the TUting-shield. Helmets with barred Vizors are most suitable to Half-round-shields. The size should also be in proportion to that of the Shield

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