Production: Unknown
Backplate with skirt for light field use, decorated with bands in the 'black and white' fashion. Formed of a main plate, a pair of side-plates, and a waist-plate with integral skirt. The main plate is shaped to the shoulder. Its vertical lateral edges bisect the arm-openings. They overlap the side-plates which are in each instance attached to them by modern round-headed rivets with octagonal internal washers. The broad, shallow neck-opening of the main plate is cusped at its centre. Attached within the lower edge of the main plate and the side-plates by five round-headed rivets with octagonal internal washers, is a separate waist-plate which is flanged outward to form a short skirt. The lower edge of the skirt is cusped at its centre and at each side. The arm-openings, the neck-openings and the lower edge of the skirt have file-roped inward turns. Attached at each shoulder by a single round-headed rivet with an octagonal internal washer is a modern leather shoulder-strap. Attached by similar rivets and washers midway along each side-plate is a modern leather strap forming a waist-belt. The broken left strap terminates in a modern double-ended iron buckle, lacking its tongue. The main plate and side-plates are decorated with recessed, bright bands and borders against a blackened ground in the 'black and white' fashion. The border at the neck is of ogee form, and the lateral vertical bands are medially-ridged. The waist-plate and its skirt are decorated with raised, bright bands and recessed bright borders against a blackened ground. Part of the composite half armour HEN.M.3A-E-1933
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Depth: 20.4 cm
Height: 41.5 cm
Weight: 2.08 kg
Width: 37.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
16th Century
Production date:
AD 1570
Differences in the style of its decoration, suggest that the waist-plate and its skirt are associated with the main plate and its side-plates.
South Germany, Nuremberg
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.
Buckle
composed of
iron (metal)
Straps
composed of
leather
Bands
Borders
Decoration
Parts
Vertical Bands
Hammering
: Formed of a main plate, a pair of side-plates, and a waist-plate with integral skirt; hammered, shaped, riveted, with banded decoration in 'black and white' fashion
Forming
Accession number: HEN.M.3E-1933
Primary reference Number: 17723
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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