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Consisting of a bronze hemispherical bowl with an attached crest-holder. Crest-holder is of two raised parallel sheets of bronze, which follow the contour of the helmet bowl and are decorated with bosses and cut-out darts or narrow triangles. The crest-holder is secured to the helmet by 12 flattened rivets: three at each end of the crest-holder and three along its length on each side. It is decorated using curving bands of bosses and vertical rows of bosses alternating with 28 cut out upward pointing darts on one side - on the other side they point downwards.

h. 21 x ø 26 cm

8th century BC

Bronze

Provenance

Sotheby's London, April 1977, 4th April 1977, lot 187
Summa Galleries, Los Angeles, 1979, no. 41
Sotheby's New York, Nelson Hunt and William Hunt Collection Sale, New York, 19th June 1990, lot 18
Ex-US Private Collection
Christie's London, Axel Guttmann sale, 28th April 2004, lot 55
Acquired at Phoenix Ancient Art, New York, 1st November 2010

Publications

"Antiquities Sale", Sotheby's, 4th April 1977, lot 187, pp. 60-61
Summa Galleries, Los Angeles, USA, 1979, cat. 5, no. 41
Wealth of the Ancient World, Forth Worth, 1983, no. 18
Sotheby's, Nelson Hunt & William Hunt Collections, USA, 19th June 1990, lot 18
Christie's, Axel Guttmann Sale, London, 28th April 2004, lot 55
Minerva, September/October 2004, vol. 15, no. 5, p.33
M. Burns, "Graeco-Italic Militaria" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 1st January 2011, p. 185, fig. 1
Nice Matin, France, May 2015, no. 24520, p. 35

Exhibitions

Wealth of the Ancient World, Kimbemm Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 1983 — 1983
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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Bronze Villanovan Helmet

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