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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1550 - 1560; Classification(s): armour, reinforcing breastplate, hammered, of medially-ridged form, projecting forward over the belly and dipping slightly towards the centre of its lower edge; hammered, shaped, riveted; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.115-1933]
Description: Reinforcing breastplate, for use in the tilt in the German fashion (Welschgestech ?ber die Planke nach deutsche Art). Of medially-ridged form, projecting forward over the belly and dipping slightly towards the centre of its lower edge. The neck and arm-openings are shallow. The edges of the latter are flanged inwards very slightly. The right of the breast is pierced a short distance below the armpit with a large vertical slot to fit over a lance-rest. The top of the breast is pierced with three vertically-aligned pairs of threaded holes to bolt on the lower edge of a helmet. Each pair of holes is reinforced at the rear by a vertical strip retained by an externally-flush rivet at its upper and lower end. | 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: | reinforcing breastplate armour Unknown | Temporal: | name=mid-16th Century; start=1550; end=1560 | 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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