Close Helmet
Unknown
ca. 1550 · Steel, gold, silver · Arms and Armor
The fantastic appearance of this helmet, with its visor shaped like a griffin's head and the comb of the bowl raised into the form of a serpent's body, indicates that it was part of an elaborate pageant armor.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1550
- Medium
- Steel, gold, silver
- Culture
- Italian, Milan or Brescia
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Credit line
- Fletcher Fund, 1929
