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Title:Barbute
Date:ca. 1465
Culture:Italian
Medium:Steel
Dimensions:H. 10 5/16 in. (26.3 cm); W. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm); D. 9 3/4 in. (24.9 cm); Wt. 5 lb. 8.75 oz. (2516 g)
Classification:Helmets
Credit Line:Gift of George D. Pratt, 1925
Object Number:25.188.20
Marking: Struck twice, on either side of the rear of the bowl: [a six-pointed star surmounted by a crown].
Mariano-José-Maria-Bernardo Fortuny, Rome (before d. 1874); Baron Charles Alexander de Cosson, London (by 1881–1893; his sale, The Famous Collection of Armour and Arms formed by that well-known connoisseur the Baron de Cosson, F.S.A., which has been on Loan to the South Kensington Museum for the last two years, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 2–3, 1893, no. 223, sold, for £45 3 shillings, to Bachereau); [Victor Bachereau, Paris, from 1893]; Henry Griffith Keasbey, Eastbourne, Sussex, England (1906–1925; his sale, The Henry Griffith Keasbey Collection, American Art Galleries, New York, November 27–28, 1925, no. 302. sold, for $2500, to Pratt); George D. Pratt, Glen Cove, Long Island, NY (1925; his gift to MMA).
Flint. Flint Institute of Arts. "The Art of the Armorer," December 7, 1967–April 1, 1968, no. 17.
Tableaux, anonymous collection, sale catalogue. Paris, April, 5–6 1875. lot no. 10.
de Cosson, Charles A. Ancient Helmets and Examples of Mail: A Catalogue of the Objects Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, June 3rd–16th 1880. London: The Institute, 1881. p. 44–45, 498, no. 17, fig. 14.
Christie, Manson & Woods. Armour and Arms, or, Catalogue of the Famous Collection of Armour and Arms Formed by That Well-Known Connoisseur, The Baron de Cosson, F.S.A., Which Has Been On Loan to the South Kensington Museum for the Last Two Years. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, May 2–3, 1893. lot no. 228.
European arms and armor from VI to XVIII century; Part II. New York: American Art Galleries, November, 27–28 1925. lot no. 302, pl. 33.
Flint Institute of Arts and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Art of the Armorer. Flint, Mich., December 7, 1967–April 1, 1968. no. 17, ill.
Karcheski, Walter J., and Thom Richardson. The Medieval Armour from Rhodes. Leeds: Royal Armouries, 2000. p. 23, no. 2.2.
Williams, Alan. The Knight and the Blast Furnace: A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages & the Early Modern Period. History of Warfare, Vol. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2002. p. 185.
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