IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18108
accession number:	HEN.M.24B-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 29 April 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Breastplate and associated tassets, for use by a pikeman. The breastplate is of late 'peascod' fashion with a deep flange at the waist, forming an integral skirt.  Its arm-openings and deep, narrow neck-opening have plain inward turns.  The turns and the upper end of the skirt are each bordered by two rows of round-headed rivets.  The breastplate is decorated with three bands that diverge from the waist to the neck and arm-openings where they merge with similar bands, in each case formed of pairs of deeply-incised lines.  Each side of the chest is pierced with a pair of holes that would originally have been fitted with a pierced stud and swivel-hook to engage the shoulder-straps of the backplate.  Each side of the breastplate is pierced with a pair of rivet-holes, probably for the attachment of hasps to connect it to the backplate.  The upper end of the skirt is decorated with a raised band accompanied by a single incised line.  Each side of the skirt is fitted with a pair of hinges for the suspension of a pair of tassets.  The outer hinge in each case is of large, elaborate form and attached by a swivel-hook and stud at its upper end, and seven rivets at its lower end.  The inner hinge is of small rectangular form and attached by a single rivet top and bottom.  The rectangular tassets are each formed in one piece and embossed to simulate seven lames.  Each lame is decorated at its upper edge with a single incised line.  The lower and lateral edges of the tassets have plain, inward turns accompanied by recessed borders containing round-headed lining-rivets.  Each tasset is decorated with three vertical lines of round-headed rivets. Part of the composite pikeman's armour HEN.M.24A-B-1933.
title:	breastplate (body armour)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before testator, Mr James Stewart Henderson of  'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J.S. Henderson
creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18108





TECHNIQUES
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the breastplate is of late 'peascod' fashion with a deep flange at the waist, forming an integral skirt, the rectangular tassets are each formed in one piece and embossed to simulate seven lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with raised bands, recessed borders, rivets and incised lines
hammering
TECHNIQUES
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forming

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1630 - 1630
creation date earliest:	1630
creation date latest:	1630
culture:	17th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 19.4

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 63.5

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 3.96

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 59.3



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Civil War Exhibition
CITATIONS
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Catalogue of European Armour at the Fitzwilliam Museum
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