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ILLYRIAN-STYLE BRONZE HELMET
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ILLYRIAN-STYLE BRONZE HELMET
See original version (French)
Estimate €12,000 - €18,000
Voluntary lot
Description
ILLYRIAN-STYLE BRONZE HELMET
Greek art, Archaic period, mid-6th century BC.
An Illyrian-style helmet featuring triangular cheek guards and a neck guard at the rear; the top of the helmet is adorned with two protruding ribs, and the rim is studded with rivets.
Minor restoration.
Height: 27.9 cm
Provenance: Former Hirschberg Collection, Germany, 1980s
Fortuna Fine Arts Ltd, New York
Christie’s, New York, 10 June 2010: lot 78 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA554)
Bibliography: Fortuna Fine Arts, Venerable Traditions: Works of Art from the Ancient World, New York, 2007, no. 33
Christie’s, Antiquities, New York, 10 June 2010, lot 78
M. Burns, ‘Graeco-Italic Militaria’ in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 201, fig. 59
A Greek bronze helmet of the Illyrian type,
Archaic Period, mid-6th century BC.
See original version (French)
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Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
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