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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1630; Classification(s): armour, breastplate (body armour), hammering, the breastplate is of late 'peascod' fashion with a deep flange at the waist, forming an integral skirt, the rectangular tassets are each formed in one piece and embossed to simulate seven lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with raised bands, recessed borders, rivets and incised lines; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.24B-1933]
Description: Breastplate and associated tassets, for use by a pikeman. The breastplate is of late 'peascod' fashion with a deep flange at the waist, forming an integral skirt. Its arm-openings and deep, narrow neck-opening have plain inward turns. The turns and the upper end of the skirt are each bordered by two rows of round-headed rivets. The breastplate is decorated with three bands that diverge from the waist to the neck and arm-openings where they merge with similar bands, in each case formed of pairs of deeply-incised lines. Each side of the chest is pierced with a pair of holes that would originally have been fitted with a pierced stud and swivel-hook to engage the shoulder-straps of the backplate. Each side of the breastplate is pierced with a pair of rivet-holes, probably for the attachment of hasps to connect it to the backplate. The upper end of the skirt is decorated with a raised band accompanied by a single incised line. Each side of the skirt is fitted with a pair of hinges for the suspension of a pair of tassets. The outer hinge in each case is of large, elaborate form and attached by a swivel-hook and stud at its upper end, and seven rivets at its lower end. The inner hinge is of small rectangular form and attached by a single rivet top and bottom. The rectangular tassets are each formed in one piece and embossed to simulate seven lames. Each lame is decorated at its upper edge with a single incised line. The lower and lateral edges of the tassets have plain, inward turns accompanied by recessed borders containing round-headed lining-rivets. Each tasset is decorated with three vertical lines of round-headed rivets. Part of the composite pikeman's armour HEN.M.24A-B-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=1630; 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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