细节
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
来源
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)
出版
Hayward, pp. 42-3, fig. XIV
Hayward & Blair, p. 80, fig. 2
展览
Art of the Armourer, cat. no. 33
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