A rear skirt, for use by a cuirassier. The broad, flaring rear skirt is formed of six upward-overlapping lames. The second to sixth lames are each made in two halves with an overlapped and riveted medial join. The first lame, which is deeper than the rest, is angled inwards at its upper edge. The inward-angled section is pierced with a circular hole at its centre, and keyhole-slots to each side, that formerly permitted its attachment to the waist-flange of the backplate. The rear skirt has file-roped inward turns at the main edges, and is decorated with pairs of inicsed lines and filed with nicks, cusps and ogees at the subsidiary edges. Part of the composite three-quarter armour HEN.M.15A-F-1933.
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
17th Century#
Production date:
circa
AD 1620
The rear skirt, tassets (HEN.M.15F-1933) and close helmet (HEN.M.15A-1933) are well matched and may originally have belonged to one another, with the exception of the poleyns which are composed of disparate elements and show traces of gilding.
Now is a russet colour overall, but was originally bright or in parts, perhaps blued
Decoration
Parts
Hammering
: The broad flaring rear skirt is formed of six upward-overlapping lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with file-roping, incised lines, filed nicks, cusps and ogees
Forming
Accession number: HEN.M.15D-1933
Primary reference Number: 17963
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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