Hi Stephan,
Yes, of course! I just wasn't thinking when I read that description in Ffoulkes: St George is the figure on the left panel, and was based on Stephan Paumgartner ... I'm so used to calling it the Paumgartner Altarpiece, and associating it with the more commonly-extracted image of St. Eustace in the right hand panel (based on Stephan's brother Lukas - thanks to Gwen for letting me know who the images were based on!)
In the interests of completeness, here's the left-hand panel, and the detail of the caul. The great thing about the St George image is that you can actually make out what looks like the thin netting underneath the thicker supporting fabric on the caul, which runs from front to back and side to side!
Seeing it in this detail makes me realise that these cauls, given their netted structure, would have easily and naturally compressed if indeed worn under a helmet. I guess this is obvious in retrospect, but the important thing about this is that what would look like a larger 'hat' in some of the images Blaz and Sean sourced is greatly a product of the outward pressure of the hair; both hair and netting would easily compress when inside a sallet.
Interestingly, the first drawing that Gerry Embleton gives as an example of 'a netted cap which fitted neatly inside a sallet' in
Medieval Military Costume, marked 'Q' on p. 83, bears a
slight resemblance to St George in this panel, although the angle, features, and cap are quite different, which initially made me wonder if Gerry was drawing from another source.
If not, then the two examples he shows as being netted caps for sallets are the paired saints/brothers from the Paumgartner piece. Both are armoured up, and are just missing their sallets/helms ... and, if Gerry's right, then those helms would have just gone on over these caps.
I'd still love to have just one contemporary textual source, though! :)
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