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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1670 - 1700; Classification(s): armour, breastplate (body armour), hammering, the medially-ridged breastplate is formed in one piece with a narrow flange at the waist; hammered, shaped, riveted, with decorative incised lines; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.15B-1933]
Description: Breastplate, for use by a cuirassier. The medially-ridged breastplate is formed in one piece with a narrow flange at the waist. The arm-openings, the deep narrow neck-opening and the waist-flange are bordered by lining-rivets. Each side of the chest is pierced with a hole for the attachment of a missing stud to engage the shoulder-straps of the backplate. These are now engaged by modern double-ended, tongued iron buckles riveted at each shoulder. The waist-flange is pierced midway along each side with a later hole for the attachment of tassets. The breastplate has plain inward turns at its main edges and is decorated with five vertical, slightly diverging bands formed of pairs of incised lines. It is of late 17th century date and was originally intended for use by the harquebusier. Part of the composite three-quarter armour HEN.M.15A-F-1933. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | armour Unknown breastplate (body armour) | Temporal: | name=late 17th Century; start=1670; end=1700 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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