Grand heaume de style vers 1300. A Great... - Lot 158 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Grand heaume de style vers 1300. A Great helm in the style of circa 1300. A faithful reconstruction and in "aged" condition, formed of five plates each overlapping and joined by flattened domed iron rivets, the lower frontal plate swept forward to an inverted prow, drawn-up to form a projecting division between the sights and pierced with a large quantity of small circular breathes on both sides, the upper frontal plate continuing the medial ridge of the lower plate, with two plates at the rear, and the crown plate flat and pointed towards the front. H.: 29.5 cm - L.: 31.5 cm - W.: 22.5 cm - Wt.: 2400 g. This helm appears to have been modelled on the example preserved in the Castel San Angelo, Rome, and the example from Aranaes castle in Sweden, preserved in the Historiska Museet, Stockholm. Both of these helmets are presumed to be German and to be from a common workshop. See, Gen. Arnaldo FORGIERO, The Castel San Angelo Helm, The Journal of the Arms & Armour Society (London), vol. I No.6, June, 1954 p.101, 102, pl. XI-XII.