A GERMAN BASINET BY LORENZ KILIAN , MUNICH, IN THE MID-14TH CENTURY STYLE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY of egg-shaped form and one-piece construction, its front cut with a broad arched face-opening, flanged outwards at its upper end, and its lower edge flanged outwards more markedly over the nape, the lower end of the face-opening and the flange at the nape pierced with holes for the attachment of an aventail and a lining 28 cm; 11 in high Provenance Ernst Schmidt, Munich, 9 November 1929 JWHA Inv. No. 1033