Lot 84
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An Extremely Fine German Armet, Attributed To Lorenz Or Kolman Helschmid Of Augsburg
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An Extremely Fine German Armet, Attributed To Lorenz Or Kolman Helschmid Of Augsburg

CIRCA 1515-20

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An Extremely Fine German Armet, Attributed To Lorenz Or Kolman Helschmid Of Augsburg
Circa 1515-20
Designed to rotate on a gorget, with broad rounded one-piece skull with low boldly roped double comb, pierced on top for a plume- or crest-holder, flanked by fluted bands in four groups of three, and extending as a 'tail' down the nape of the neck, the cheek-pieces hinged at the rear, shaped closely to the chin, and secured by a pierced stud and swivel-hook catch at the front, and, on the right a spring visor catch, and bluntly-pointed pivoted visor with stepped horizontal sight divided centrally above a series of vertical and horizontal breaths, the latter in an embossed rib, at top centre a pierced pin, and respectively to the left and right of the sight a blind stud and an oval hole, all for the attachment of a reinforce (missing) for the tourney, at the rear four holes for the attachment of a plume-holder (missing), the bottom edge with hollow turn, with domed steel rivets throughout securing the original quilted canvas lining (damaged)
10½in. (26.7cm.) high
Provenance
The Munich Zeughaus (?)
Count Törring-Seefeld
W.R. Hearst, St. Donat's Castle, Glamorganshire
Mrs. Bartel ('The Property of a Lady') Sotheby & Co., London, 6 December 1951, lot 168 (£110 to Dr. Williams)
Literature
Hayward, pp. 42-3, fig. XIV
Hayward & Blair, p. 80, fig. 2
Exhibited
Art of the Armourer, cat. no. 33
Special notice
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Lot Essay

This splendid helmet has features in common, in both style and quality of workmanship, with the helmet of an armour bearing the mark of Lorenz Helmschmid (d. 1515) in the Historisches Museum, Bern, and an unmarked helmet ascribed to Kolman Helmschmid (d.1532) in the Bashford Dean Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The present helmet is unusual in retaining its original lining

See Bern Museum, inv. no. 81
Dean Collection, inv. no. 7
Gamber 1975, pp. 29-30, fig. 39

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