Cleveland Museum of Art

Close Helmet (from a Small Garniture, perhaps for Siegmund Friedrich, Freiherr von Herbertstein [d.1621])

Date

c. 1580

Medium

steel, etched and gilded, brass rivets

Culture

Germany, Augsburg (?), 16th century

Department

Medieval Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This helmet appears to belong to a garniture for man and horse of which other elements survive in the Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The associated visor has been removed to better show the beautiful etched and gilded strapwork decoration.

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