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Backplate (body armour): HEN.M.2E-1933

Object information

Current Location: Gallery 31 (Armoury)

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown

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Categories

Description

Backplate for light field use, decorated with bands in the 'black and white' fashion. Formed in one piece, with a flange at the waist. Its arm-openings, its broad, shallow neck-opening and its waist-flange have plain inward turns. Attached by a pair of round-headed rivets at the right shoulder is a modern shoulder-strap. Attached by a single round-headed rivet with a circular internal washer at the left shoulder is a fragment of a modern shoulder-strap. Attached by a pair of round-headed rivets at each side of the waist is a modern leather strap forming a waist-belt. The right strap terminates in a modern single-ended, tongued, iron buckle with a roller. Part of the composite half-armour HEN.M.2A-E-1933

Notes

History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.

Legal notes

J.S. Henderson Bequest

Measurements and weight

Depth: 16.6 cm
Height: 39 cm
Weight: 1.79 kg
Width: 36.2 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart

Dating

17th Century, Early#
Production date: circa AD 1610

Note

The backplate is decorated with raised bands and borders against a blackened ground in the 'black and white' fashion. The borders at the neck and arm-opening bulge inwards between the vertical bands.

The bright bands of the backplate show a light to medium patination. The intervening blackened areas are worn through to bright metal at some points. The metal shows extensive delamination.

Components of the work

Buckle composed of iron (metal)
Straps composed of leather
Decoration

Materials used in production

Steel

Techniques used in production

Hammering : Formed in one piece, with a flange at the waist; hammered, shaped, with banded decoration
Patinating
Forming

Identification numbers

Accession number: HEN.M.2E-1933
Primary reference Number: 17714
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 14 September 2022 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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