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The etching is possibly a late example of the Brunswick School. Rivet washers of this type are found on a number of helmets and other elements formerly in the Brunswick armoury at Wolfenbuttel
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LATE 16TH CENTURY
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A GERMAN ETCHED COMB MORION
LATE 16TH CENTURY
With one-piece skull rising to a cabled comb, the base encircled with lining rivets on pewter rosette washers, the brim struck with a mark (obscured by the etching), and the edges turned and roped, etched throughout with bands of scrolling flowering foliage on a blackened granular ground, involving a pair of half-putti in triumph on both sides of the comb, armoured tilting figures on caparisoned mounts differing over the respective sides of the skull, each within a cartouche, also differing, and each against a differing background pattern, involving a pair of winged sphinx figures on one side and a series of monsters' heads on the other (the brim cracked on one side, the etching partly rubbed around the brim, the comb with internal patch)
11in (28cm)
LATE 16
With one-piece skull rising to a cabled comb, the base encircled with lining rivets on pewter rosette washers, the brim struck with a mark (obscured by the etching), and the edges turned and roped, etched throughout with bands of scrolling flowering foliage on a blackened granular ground, involving a pair of half-putti in triumph on both sides of the comb, armoured tilting figures on caparisoned mounts differing over the respective sides of the skull, each within a cartouche, also differing, and each against a differing background pattern, involving a pair of winged sphinx figures on one side and a series of monsters' heads on the other (the brim cracked on one side, the etching partly rubbed around the brim, the comb with internal patch)
11in (28cm)
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