ID 1303142
Lot 38 | AN ITALIC BRONZE MONTEFORTINO HELMET
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 20 000
CIRCA 300-200 B.C.
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Axel Guttmann (1944-2001), Berlin, acquired in 1987 (Inv. no. AG130/H6).
The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, Part 2, Christie's, London, 28 April 2004, lot 116.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, acquired from the above (Ancient Arms, Armor, and Images of Warfare, 2004, no. 32).
Private Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, acquired from the above, 2006.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York.
Christian Levett, London, acquired from the above on behalf of the Mougins Museum of Classical Art, 2008.
Literature
H. Born, "Zur Herstellung der Etruskischen Bronzehelme mit Scheitelknauf," Archaologisches Korrespondenzblatt, vol. 21, 1991, pp. 75-77, pls. 9,3 and 12.
M. Junkelmann, Römische Helme: Sammlung Axel Guttmann, Mainz am Rhein, 2000, pp. 107-108, figs. 30-32.
M. Burns, "Graeco-Italic Militaria," in M. Merrony, ed., Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, p. 187, fig. 12.
Exhibited
Mougins Museum of Classical Art, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA504).
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