Barbute

Marking: Stamped on the right cheek: the lion of Saint Mark (the stamp of the Republic of Venice); stamped twice at back of the bowl on the right: a horned animal head (goat or ram), and the letters IdB surmounted by a double cross with a split foot.

Count Gino Cittadella Vigodarzere, Villa Soanara near Padua (before 1913; sold to Grassi); [Luigi Grassi, Florence, by 1913; sold to de Cosson]; Baron Charles Alexander de Cosson, London (1913–28; sold to Douglass); George A. Douglass, New York (1928–d. 1958; by descent to his widow, Mrs. Douglass); Mrs. George A. (Florence Welsh) Douglass, New York (1958–60; her gift to MMA).

Cosson, Charles Alexander. "Milanese Armourers' Marks." Burlington Magazine 36, no. 203 pp. 96, 98–99, p. 98 ill.

Laking, Guy Francis, and Charles Alexander Cosson. A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries, edited by Francis Henry Cripps-Day. Vol. II. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920. p. 6–7, fig. 338.

Thomas, Bruno, and Ortwin Gamber. "L'Arte Milanese dell'Armatura." Storia di Milano XI pp. 698–841, p. 737 for marks of Jacomo detto Bichignola as found on Tower of London helmet IV-17.

Grancsay, Stephen V. "Sculpture in Steel: A Milanese Renaissance Barbute." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, (January 1963), pp. 182–191.

Boccia, Lionello G., Fabio Rossi, and Marco Morin. Armi e Armature Lombarde. Milan: Electa, 1980. p. 77, no. 63.

Grancsay, Stephen V., and Stuart W. Pyhrr. Arms & Armor: Essays by Stephen V. Grancsay from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 1920–1964. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. pp. 493–505; fig. 113.1.

Pyhrr, Stuart W. "S. J. Whawell and the Art Market." The Eleventh Park Lane Arms Fair: Sunday 6th February 1994: the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London W1: 10.30 AM–6.00 PM pp. 17, 20.

Chodyński, Antoni Romuald. "Oblezenie Malborka w 1460 Roku Jako Zrodlo Ikonograficzne do Dziejow Wojny Trzynastoletnicj." Muzealnictwo Wojskowe 7 p. 382 (similar helmut shown).

Laking, Guy Francis, Charles Alexander Cosson, Francis Henry Cripps-Day, and Claude Blair. A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries. Vol. II. Cambridge: Ken Trotman Ltd., 2000. p. 6–7, fig. 338.

Wixom, William. "An Embossed Visor of the Duke of Urbino." The Burlington Magazine Armorer Jacobo detto Bichignola discussed; mark and two views of MMA helmet ill.

Hunter Edward. "A Technical Examination of the Lion Helmet." Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology (2014), pp. 193–94, fig. 10.