IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18294 accession number: HEN.M.38-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 19 April 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 'Spanish' morion, for infantry use, with modern etched and gilt decoration. Formed in one piece with an almond-shaped crown that curves down at each side and rises to a short, backward-directed 'stalk' at its apex; and an integral brim that is turned down at each side and curves up to a point at the front and rear. The edge of the brim has a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a narrow, recessed border. The brim shows two cracks in its left edge and is pierced with three later holes at the centre of its left side. The base of the crown is encircled by fourteen brass-capped, round-headed lining-rivets fitted with brass rosette washers externally, and circular iron washers internally. Two of the external washers are incomplete, and two of the internal washers are missing. Attached at the nape by a pair of brass-capped, round-headed rivets is a modern brass plume-holder with seven radiating arms with outward scrolled ends. The centre of the plume-holder is engraved with a crowned coat of arms. The helmet is decorated on its crown with twelve vertical bands of etched and gilt trophies that radiate from its apex. Each band is enclosed to either side by three narrow plain bands. The base of the crown is encircled by five narrow, etched and gilt bands, of which the second and fourth are cabled and the remainder are plain. The brim is decorated with etched and gilt scrolling foliage. title: Spanish morion NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18294 SUBJECTS ------------------- coat of arms foliage coat of arms foliage TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in one piece with an almond-shaped crown that curves down at each side and rises to a short, backward-directed 'stalk' at its apex; and an integral brim that is turned down at each side and curves up to a point at the front and rear; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roping, etched and gilded decoration, recessed borders, and an engraved plume-holder hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1580 - 1580 creation date earliest: 1580 creation date latest: 1580 culture: 16th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 38.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 31.9 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.67 dimension: Width units: cm value: 25.5