A heavy wall half armour dating: First half of the 17th Century provenance: Naples or Spain, Viscontea-type helmet without sight with heavy skull, in one piece, ribbed in the center and engraved with a gilded band with floral motifs. Chanfrin with raisable, ribbed brim and with hemmed, smooth border, central band and borders decorated en suite. Beaver with open facial part and neck and nape-guard's plate decorated in the same way, finished helmet's surface. Simple gorget with vertical upper border. Beautiful breast-plate provided with outlined neckline and gussets, engraved and gilded with Constantinian Order of Saint George on a neck-ribbon. Neckline and gussets decorated with bands en suite with the helmet, the same decoration also on the back-plate. Pauldrons complete with finished vambrace, decorated with double lines (so as the helmet) but without gilded engravings. Elbow-piece with square wings, embossed in the center. height as shown circa 72 cm.