ID 1303119
Lot 34 | A VILLANOVAN BRONZE HELMET
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 90 000
CIRCA 800-700 B.C.
13 7/8 in. (35.2 cm.) long
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 4 April 1977, lot 187.
with Summa Galleries, Beverley Hills, 1979 (Catalogue 5, no. 41).
William Herbert Hunt (1929-2024), Dallas, acquired from the above.
The William Herbert Hunt Collection: Highly Important Greek, Roman and Etruscan Bronzes, Sotheby's, New York, 19 June 1990, lot 18 (part).
Axel Guttmann (1944-2001), Berlin (Inv. no. AG335/H93).
The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, Part 2, Christie's, London, 28 April 2004, lot 55 (part).
Private Collection, New York, acquired from the above.
with Phoenix Ancient Art, New York and Geneva.
Christian Levett, London, acquired from the above on behalf of the Mougins Museum of Classical Art, 2010.
Literature
D. von Bothmer, et al., Wealth of the Ancient World: The Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt Collections, Fort Worth, 1983, p. 92, no. 18.
J.M. Eisenberg, "The Spring 2004 Antiquities Sales," Minerva, September-October 2004, p. 33, fig. 2.
M. Burns, "Graeco-Italic Militaria," in M. Merrony, ed., Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, p. 185, fig. 1.
N. Nussbaum, "À Mougins, les casques gréco-romains racontent les guerres antiques," Nice-Matin, 24 May 2015, p. 35.
Exhibited
Fort Worth, Kimball Art Museum; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Detroit Institute of Arts; Dallas Museum of Art, Wealth of the Ancient World: The Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt Collections, 25 June 1983-10 June 1984.
Mougins Museum of Classical Art, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA601).
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