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Lot 163

A Rare German Triple-Combed Burgonet
Circa 1540

17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare German Triple-Combed Burgonet
Circa 1540

With rounded one-piece skull rough from the hammer and with three prominently roped combs, and flanged brim fore and aft (the former with old split and lamination), hinged ear-pieces en suite and each pierced with three holes, and with holes overall for the attachment of a textile covering (some light surface pitting, the interior now painted red)
22.5 cm. high

Footnotes

For a comparable burgonet see Baron Dr. Otmar von Potier, Die Waffenkammer des Stiftes Kremsmünster, Zeitschrift für Historisches Waffenkunde, vol. 4, Dresden, 1906-08, 8 heft, p. 237, no. 313. Another example is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (HEN.m. 79-1933)

The Emperor Charles V is depicted wearing a helmet of similar form in Titian's famous equestrian portrait of him commemorating the Battle of Mühlberg painted in 1548 and now in the Prado, Madrid. The Mühlberg armour was made by Desiderius Helmschmied in 1544

Cf. another example sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Arms & Armour..., 30 November 2011, lot 286

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