BY MARTIN ROTSCHMIED, NUREMBERG, LATE 16TH CENTURY
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A Comb Morion Of The Saxon Electoral Guard
By Martin Rotschmied, Nuremberg, late 16th Century
Of one piece, with roped comb and brim, the base of the skull encircled by sixteen gilt-brass lion-masks capping the lining-rivets, each with a ring in its mouth, decorated with gilt etching on a reblacked ground comprising bands of scrollwork enclosing, on each side of the skull, figures of Mutius Scaevola and of Marcus Curtius leaping into the gulf, and on each side of the comb the arms of Saxony and the insignia of the archmarshalcy of the Holy Roman Empire, later(?) gilt-brass plume-holder cast in the form of a female term, and later laminated ear-pieces, the brim struck with armourer's mark and Nuremberg mark
11¾in. (29.8cm.) high
From the group of helmets made for the Trabantan guard of the Electors of Saxony
Cf. helmets A 114-118 in the Wallace Collection, of which the last bears the same armourer's mark
By Martin Rotschmied, Nuremberg, late 16th Century
Of one piece, with roped comb and brim, the base of the skull encircled by sixteen gilt-brass lion-masks capping the lining-rivets, each with a ring in its mouth, decorated with gilt etching on a reblacked ground comprising bands of scrollwork enclosing, on each side of the skull, figures of Mutius Scaevola and of Marcus Curtius leaping into the gulf, and on each side of the comb the arms of Saxony and the insignia of the archmarshalcy of the Holy Roman Empire, later(?) gilt-brass plume-holder cast in the form of a female term, and later laminated ear-pieces, the brim struck with armourer's mark and Nuremberg mark
11¾in. (29.8cm.) high
From the group of helmets made for the Trabantan guard of the Electors of Saxony
Cf. helmets A 114-118 in the Wallace Collection, of which the last bears the same armourer's mark
Provenance
Anon. sale, Galerie Fischer, Luzern, 24 June 1974, Lot 71