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Title:Tournament Helm (Kolbenturnierhelm)
Date:1510
Culture:German
Medium:Steel
Dimensions:H. 15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm); W. 10 in. (25.4 cm); D. 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm); Wt. 10 lb. 8 oz. (4763 g)
Classification:Helmets
Credit Line:Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, 1929
Object Number:29.158.37
J. M. Soyter, Augsburg (by 1871); Count Johann Nepomuk Wilczek, Castle Kreuzenstein, Leobendorf, Austria (until 1924; sold to Julius Scheuer for Dean); Bashford Dean, New York (1924–d. 1928; sold by his estate to MMA).
Vienna. Osterreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst. "Heraldisch-genealogisch-sphragistische Ausstellung," April–June 1878.
Los Angeles. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Loan Exhibition of Mediaeval and Renaissance Arms and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 15–March 18, 1953, no. 23.
San Francisco. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "Loan Exhibition of Mediaeval and Renaissance Arms and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 18–June 7, 1953, no. 23.
Pittsburgh. Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute. "Loan Exhibition of Mediaeval and Renaissance Arms and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 1953–April 1954, no. 23.
Houston. University of St. Thomas. "Persona Grata: An Exhibition of Masks from 1200 B.C. to the Present," November 3–December 11, 1960, no. 158.
Demmin, August. Guide des amateurs d'armes et armures anciennes. 2 ed. Paris: Renouard, 1869. p. 257, fig. 50.
Butsch, Albert F. Waffenstücke, Rüstungen, Kunstwerke & Geräthschaften des Mittelalters und der Renaissance. Augsburg: Butsch, 1871. pl. 16.
Boeheim, Wendelin. "Die Waffen auf der heraldischen Ausstellung in Wien im Jahre 1878." Jahrbuch des Heraldisch-Genealogischen Vereines "Adler" in Wien 5 p. 7.
Forrer, Robert. Die Waffensammlung des Herrn Stadtrath Rich. Zschille in Grossenhain (Sachsen). Vol. 1. Berlin: E. Mertens, 1892. no. 30, Tafel 5.
Demmin, August. Die Kriegswaffen in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwickelungen von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart: eine Encyklopädie der Waffenkunde. 4 ed. Leipzig: P. Friesenhahn, 1893. p. 511, fig. 51.
Ströhl, Hugo Gerard. Heraldischer Atlas. Eine Sammlung von heraldischen Musterblättern für Künstler, Gewerbetreibende, sowie für Freunde der Wappenkunde. Stuttgart, 1899. Tafel XI, fig. 16.
Ricci, Seymour de, and Léon Roger-Milès. Exposition d'Objets d'Art du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance, Organisée par la Marquise de Ganay: Chez M. Jacques Séligmann. Paris: Renouard, 1913. No. 311.
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. 161–162, fig. 501 (ill. helmet).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stephen V. Grancsay, and Carl Otto von Kienbusch. The Bashford Dean Collection of Arms and Armor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Portland, ME: Southworth Press for the Armor and Arms Club of New York City, 1933. p. 131, no. 46 (describes this piece), pl. IV (ill. piece with drawing).
Grancsay, Stephen V. "A helm for the baston course." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 37, 3 p. 64.
Grancsay, Stephen V. Loan Exhibition of Mediaeval and Renaissance Arms and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1953. p. 14, no. 23.
Jones Hall Fine Arts Gallery. Persona Grata: an Exhibition of Masks from 1200 B.C. to the Present. Houston: Jones Hall Fine Arts Gallery, 1960. cat. no. 158.
Nickel, Helmut. Ullstein-Waffenbuch: eine kulturhistorische Waffenkunde mit Markenverzeichnis. Berlin: Ullstein, 1974. fig., p. 86.
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. 59–67, fig. 21.4.
Barocchi, Paola, and Museo Nazionale del Bargello. Arti de Medio Evo e de Rinascimento: Omaggio ai Carrand, 1889-1989.. Florence, 1989. pp. 215–216.
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