IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 159956 accession number: O.171-1879 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Of steel, comprising a deep gutter-shaped plate rounded to the elbow, and a detached inner plate. The edge is bordered in the outside by a series of brass rivets retaining a black leather lining band which originally retained the lining, now lost. At the wrist of the main plate is a fragment of the hand defence, of red velvet studded with brass rivets, and on the inner plate is most of the hand defence. At the lower edge at the wrist of the main plate are two hinged strap loops, one retaining a modern leather strap, with decorative terminals, and on the outer edge is one matching hinge hasp, with two vacant rivet holes for the other one, which survives on the inner wrist plate, which has the two matching buckles. The exterior is bordered with floral scrolls in gold koftgari, the main plate originally set with eight flowers formed of red glass petals set in mastic on gold foil ground, of which two are entirely missing, one lacks one petal and one lacks three., the inner plate with four, all complete. The condition is rough, dirty and worn, and the remaining textile is fragmentary title: Arm defence LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Robert Taylor creditline: Given by Robert Taylor, MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/159956 CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1860 - 1879 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1879 culture: 19th Century, Late# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Inner Plate Length units: cm value: 13.5 dimension: Main Plate Length units: cm value: 31.8 dimension: Over Hand Defence units: cm value: 25 dimension: Weight units: g value: 692 CITATIONS -------- List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879 ---