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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1600; Classification(s): armour, cuirass, hammering, comprising a breastplate formed in one-piece, in the late 'peascod' fashion, with a flange at the waist and a backplate formed in one-piece with a flange at the waist; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roped and pointill? decoration; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.16C-1933]
Description: Cuirass, of large size, possibly for siege use. Comprising a breastplate and a backplate. The breastplate is formed in one piece, in the late 'peascod' fashion, with a flange at the waist. A modern mushroom-shaped stud riveted at each side of its chest receives the shoulder-straps of the backplate. A pierced stud, possibly for the attachment of a reinforce, is riveted at the centre of the neck-opening. Three modern straps for the attachment of tassets are incorrectly riveted at each side of the waist-flange.
The backplate is formed in one piece with a flange at the waist. A later scaled shoulder-strap is riveted at each shoulder. Its long terminal scale is pierced with two keyhole slots. The inner of the pair of rivets that attaches each shoulder strap also secures a modern single-ended, tongueless buckle, probably intended for the attachment of pauldrons. Pierced studs, possibly for the attachment of a reinforce, are riveted at the centre of the neck-opening and the centre of the waist, respectively. Attached by a single rivet at each side of the waist is a modern strap forming a waist-belt. The right strap terminates in a modern double-ended, tongued iron buckle. The main edges of both the breastplate and backplate have file-roped inward turns. The breastplate shows traces of a medial band of pointill? decoration. Part of the composite half armour HEN.M.16A-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 cuirass | Temporal: | name=early 17th Century; start=1600; end=1600 | 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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