Comb Morion

Unknown

ca. 1600 · Steel, lead, textile · Arms and Armor

This example is one of a series of morions etched with the arms of the cooper's guild: a pair of compasses opened above a short-handled cooper's ax and supported by two goats. Helmets emblazoned with the heraldic arms of an individual ruler, an aristocratic house, or even a municiplity are commonplace (see, for example, acc. nos. 04.3.219, 04.3.222, 14.25.532, and 29.156.46), but this group is the only one recorded as bearing the emblem of a craft guild. These helmets are traditionally said to come from Cologne.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1600

Medium

Steel, lead, textile

Culture

German

Department

Arms and Armor

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1928