Roman Iron and Tinned Bronze Cavalry Helmet
Deaccessioned at Christie's New York, Arms and Armour from the Mougins Museum of Classical Art sales, the 30th January 2024. Formed of iron with tinned bronze decoration including a stylized band of laurel around and over the crown, eagle wings on either side, a large eagle with outspread wings standing on a ground line in relief at the back above the neck-guard, flanked by architectural elements consisting of lozenge filled rectangles surmounted by triangles, the neck-guard flaring out horizontally, ear-guards riveted at either side, the ornate cusped cheek-pieces with naturalistically-modelled ears, each with a central boss surrounded by scallop shells, bordered by beading and stippled.
Provenance
Publications
- , "Roman Helmets in the Axel Guttmann-Collection, Berlin", Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies
- , Römische Helme: Sammlung Axel Guttmann, Mainz
- , Axel Guttmann Sale, part 2, London
- , Ancient Arms, Armor, and Images of Warfare
- , Antiquities Sale, London
- , "Roman Militaria", Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France
- , Die Armee der Caesaren: Archäologie und Geschichte
- , Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, La Collection Famille Levett, France
- "La plus grande collection privée d’armures, de casques, de boucliers au monde", Egypte Ancienne
- , Hadrian’s Cavalry, UK
- , "Along the Wall with Hadrian", Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology
- , L’armée de Rome, la puissance et la gloire, France
- , "L’armée de Rome à Arles antique", La Provence
- "Expo musée d’Arles “L’Armée de Rome, la puissance et la gloire"", Human-hist
- "L’armée de Rome, la puissance et la gloire", Foundation Gandur pour l’art
- , "The power and the glory", Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology
- , Army of the Roman Emperors : Archeology and History, Oxford
- , "Une vie de légionnaire", Invictus, au coeur de deux Légions mythiques, Aubagne
Exhibitions
- Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011
- , Tullie House Museum, Carlisle, Hadrian’s Wall Country, UK, 8th April 2017 — 10th September 2017
- , Musée de départemental de l’Arles antique, Arles, France, 15th December 2018 — 22nd April 2019
- , Musée de la Légion étrangère, Aubagne, France, 10th September 2020 — 3rd October 2021
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