Auctions Imperial 2017 Arms & Armor November
Lot 255:
Description
Likely German, the two-piece skull with roped comb, the well-formed visor and bevor sharing a common pivot as is typical, the visor with raising stud and characteristic prominent ridge between the ocularia, the bevor with 10 breaths pierced in a circle to the right side and retained by a sprung catch. The gorget composed of two pairs of lames with turned edges and riveted borders, with a closing stud to either side. C. 1550-1600. Interior rusted. Helmets of this type are precisely depicted in UBERFALL AUF EINEN GELEITZUG (Attack on a Convoy, ) a 1618 painting by Sebastiaen Vranx, now in the Karlsruhe Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany. Height 33.3cm. Condition III
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