Armet with Mask Visor in the Form of a Rooster

Unknown

ca. 1530 · Steel · Arms and Armor

This helmet is remarkable for the three-dimensional figure of a rooster's head in the center of the visor, which is an outstanding example of sculpture in steel and is unprecedented even among mask visors.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1530

Medium

Steel

Culture

German, probably Augsburg

Department

Arms and Armor

Credit line

Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Bequest of Bashford Dean, 1928