A JOUSTING HELM IN THE ITALIAN LATE 15TH CENTURY FASHION, LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY of heavy "frog-mouthed" form, comprising crown-plate, front plate and rear plate, all medially-ridged and rigidly secured to one another by large round-headed rivets, the rear plate decorated with a spray of flutes, and the lower edge of the helm flanged outwards at each side, fitted at its front with a long hinged rectangular hasp pierced distally with four square holes, and at its rear with a hinged slightly trapezoidal hasp having a roller at its distal end (lightly patinated overall) Height without hasps 35.0 cm; 13 ½ in Provenance Johannes Count von Moy de Sons, Schloss Anif, sold Sotheby's Amsterdam 17th October 2001, lot 684. The helm is a copy of one in the Hofjagd- und Rustkammer, Vienna, Inv. No. B2, made about 1490 for Gasparo Fracasso, Milanese ambassador to the Court of Innsbruck, and resembles two further examples in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Inv. Nos C5 & C6 (see Laking, 1920, figs 472-3; and Boccia & Coeho 1967, pls 145-52)