Armour (protective wear): HEN.M.18A-F-1933

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Maker(s)

Production: Unknown

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Armour (protective wear)

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Armour

Description

Armour consisting of a close helmet, a breastplate, a backplate, a pair of knee-length tassets of which one is a modern restoration made of artificial leather, a pair of pauldrons and vambraces, and a pair of modern fingered gauntlets.

Notes

History note: Probably in the Stafford Collection sold by Christies, London, 28-30 May 1885, Lot 74 for £29. Subsequently in the Amherst Collection, sold by Christies, London, 11 December 1908, Lot 56, 32 gns. Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.

Legal notes

J.S. Henderson Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

17th Century#
19th Century
Circa 1620 CE - 1680 CE Circa 1800 CE - 1900 CE

Note

Dutch; the breastplate possibly English

The gauntlets are painted black over a bright surface. The remainder of the armour has a russet finish over a variably-pitted surface that may originally have been either bright or 'black from the hammer'.

Components of the work

Parts

Materials used in production

Techniques used in production

Forming
Hammering

Identification numbers

Accession number: HEN.M.18A-F-1933
Primary reference Number: 18002
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 8 January 2016

Associated departments & institutions

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

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