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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1490; Classification(s): armour, bevor, hammered, formed in one-piece with a high medially-ridged upper half shaped to the chin and neck, and a deep lower half extending down the chest; hammered, shaped, riveted, with incised lines and bevelled decoration; Acquisition: given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1939-07-12, Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, National Art-Collections Fund and Mr E. Evelyn Barron, M.A., L.L.G., Peterhouse [M.4B-1939]
Description: Bevor, for wear with a sallet in a type of joust known in Germany as the Scharfrennen, which was fought with pointed lances in an open field. Formed in one-piece with a high medially-ridged upper half shaped to the chin and neck, and a deep lower half extending down the chest. The upper edge, which rises to its centre, has a plain, angular, outward turn. The lower edge, which has a truncated cusp at its centre is bevelled. The cusp is pierced with a pair of rivet-holes for the attachment of a hasp, while the outer ends of the lower edge are each pierced with a large bolt-hole to allow the bevor to be rigidly secured to the breastplate. The upper edge and sides of the bevor, down to the level of the shoulders, are fitted with twenty-two of an original twenty-four round-headed lining-rivets with circular internal washers retaining fragments of a leather lining-band. Except for the lowest one on each side, the rivets are arranged in pairs. They are replaced throughout. A further rivet-hole at the centre of the throat probably served to secure a lining-band across the neck. The neck is decorated with a pair of widely spaced incised lines. Bought together with the sallet M.4A-1939 | 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 bevor | Temporal: | name=late 15th century; start=1490; end=1490 | 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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