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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1620 - 1630; Classification(s): armour, breastplate (body armour), hammering, the medially-ridged breastplate is made in one piece with an upstanding flange at its neck-opening and a flange at the waist; hammered, shaped, riveted, with incised decoration; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.17C-1933]
Description: Breastplate, for use by a cuirassier. The breastplate is made in one piece with an upstanding flange at its neck-opening and a flange at the waist. It is medially-ridged and dips down at the centre of the waist. Its arm-openings, narrow neck-opening and waist-flange have plain inward turns. The turns at the arm-openings are bordered by pairs of incised lines. Riveted low down at each shoulder is a modern mushroom-shaped stud with an oval head, intended to engage the shoulder-straps of the backplate. Two of the three holes pierced below each of them, at either side of the chest, may have served to retain pierced studs and swivel-hooks that originally engaged and secured the shoulder-straps. A modern swivel-hook riveted at each side of the breastplate serves to engage the pierced studs riveted at each side of the backplate. A later hole is pierced to the inside of each of the swivel-hooks. A modern mushroom-shaped stud for the suspension of the tassets is riveted at each side of the waist-flange. Part of the composite three-quarter armour HEN.M.17A-G-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=17th Century; start=1620; end=1630 | 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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