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Title:Armet
Date:ca. 1500–1510
Culture:British or Flemish
Medium:Steel, pigment
Dimensions:H. 11 3/4 in. (29.9 cm); W. 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm); D. 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm); Wt. 8 lb. 1 oz. (3655 g)
Classification:Helmets
Credit Line:Gift of George D. Pratt, 1925
Object Number:25.188.21
John Walker Baily, London (until d. 1873; by descent to his son and executor, Walker); Walker Baily, London (1873–1881; sold together with the entire Baily collection of arms and armor, for £450, to de Cosson); Charles Alexander de Cosson, London (1881–1890; his sale, The First Portion of the Collection of Armour and Arms of the Baron de Cosson, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 25, 1890, no. 144); John Clements, Liverpool (before d. 1906); Henry Griffith Keasbey, Eastbourne, Sussex, England (1906–1925; his sale, The Henry Griffith Keasbey Collection, American Art Galleries, New York, November 27–28, 1925, no. 306. sold, for $1,600, to Pratt); George D. Pratt, Glen Cove, Long Island, NY (1925; his gift to MMA).
London. Ironmonger's Hall. "London 1861," May, 1861 A catalogue of the antiquities and works of art exhibited at Ironmonger's Hall of 2 volumes. This helmet is found in vol. 1, p. 180.
London. New Gallery. "Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor," 1890–April 6, 1890, no. 692 Helmet lent by C. A. de Cosson.
British Archaeological Association. "Obituary for John Walker Baily." In The Journal of the British Archaeological Association. Vol. 30. London: British Archaeological Association, 1874. pp. 349–350.
Burges, W., and Charles A. de Cosson. Catalogue of the Exhibition of Ancient Helmets and Examples of Mail. London: The Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1881. p. 57, no. 40, pl. III, fig. 36.
de Cosson, Charles A. Ancient Helmets and Examples of Mail: A Catalogue of the Objects Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, June 3rd–16th 1880. London: The Institute, 1881. p. 57, no. 40, pl. III, fig. 36.
de Cosson, Charles A., and British Archaeological Association. "The Capells of Rayne Hall, Essex; With Some Notes on Helmets Formerly in the Rayne Church." The Archaeological Journal 40
Christie, Manson & Woods. Armour and Arms. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, June 25, 1890. p. 14, no. 144.
New Gallery. Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor: The New Gallery, Regent Street. London: The Gallery, 1890. p. 163, no. 692.
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. pp. 91–94, fig. 445G.
American Art Association. European Arms and Armor from VI to XVIII Century, Part II. New York: American Art Association, November 27–28, 1925. no. 306, pl. XXXIII.
Dean, Bashford, and Robert T. Nichol. Handbook of Arms and Armor : European and Oriental, edited by Stephen V. Grancsay. 4th ed. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 1930. p. 90, fig. 47.
Cripps-Day, Francis Henry, and Arthur Richard Dufty. "Addenda to a monograph on "Armor preserved in English churches" by the editor, printed privately at the Chiswick Press in 1922." Fragmenta Armamentaria, (1939), p. 144.
Mann, J. G. "Armour in Essex." Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society (1939), p. 293, pl. X(b), [object incorrectly identified as formaly being in Rayne Church].
Nickel, Helmut. "English Armour in the Metropolitan Museum." The Connoisseur 172 pp. 198–199, no. 693, fig. 6.
La Rocca, Donald J. "A William Burges Sketchbook of Helmets, ca. 1880, Bashford Dean and G.F. Lawrence, and Renaissance Leatherwork from London." The Journal of the Arms and Armour Society XIX, no. 5 see pp. 207, note 15.
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