Beau morion gravé à haute crête, Italie fin... - Lot 74 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Beau morion gravé à haute crête, Italie fin XVIe siècle. A fine Italian etched high comb morion, late 16th century. Formed in one piece, with tall narrow comb, the base of the skull with a band of lining rivets on brass rosette washers, narrow brim rising to sharply up-turned points front and rear, and recessed border with turned roped edge, the skull and the comb each etched with a complex pattern of interlaced strapwork filled with armour and other trophies-of-war, centring on a classical warrior differing over the respective sides of the skull, the brim decorated with a band of acanthus leaves, and all on a contrasting stippled ground and arranged as a series of panels between incised segmental bands. H.: 33 cm - L.: 32.3 cm - W.: 23.3 cm - Wt.: 1925 g. Provenance: Theodore Offerman, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries Inc., New York, November 11th to 13th, 1937, lot 247 ($190). A very similar example is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (HEM.m.28-1933). See, EAVES, Ian, Catalogue of European Armour at the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2002, p.151, pl. 21