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Close Helmet, from a Small Garniture, perhaps for Siegmund Friedrich, Freiherr von Herbertstein (d. 1621)
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This helmet appears to belong to a garniture for man and horse of which other elements survive in the Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The associated visor has been removed to better show the beautiful etched and gilded strapwork decoration.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineClose Helmet, from a Small Garniture, perhaps for Siegmund Friedrich, Freiherr von Herbertstein (d. 1621), c. 1580. Germany, possibly Augsburg. Steel, etched and gilded, brass rivets; overall: 40 x 35.5 x 23 cm (15 3/4 x 14 x 9 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.1531
