IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18570
accession number:	HEN.M.105-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 13 April 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Breastplate, for infantry use, decorated with fluting in the 'Gothic' fashion. Of rounded, medially-ridged form, composed of a breastplate proper, covering the thorax, and an upward overlapping plackart, covering the abdomen.  The breastplate proper has bold, angular, outward turns at the neck and arm-openings.  The arm-openings are each bordered by three flutes which converge slightly before fading out at their upper and lower ends.  A pair of rivet-holes for the attachment of shoulder-straps is pierced at the top of each shoulder, while a pair of lace-holes is pierced at the centre of the neck-opening.  The upper edge of the plackart is decorated with five cusps, of which the central one terminates in a large leaf-shaped finial pierced at either side of its base with four decorative holes in lozenge formation.  The central and outer cusps are fitted with modern round-headed rivets and internal washers that secure the plackart to the breastplate proper.  The upper edge of the plackart is bordered at either side by three flutes that converge just below the central rivet.  The lower edge of the plackart is flanged outwards to receive a skirt.  The flange is pierced at each of its outer ends with a rivet-hole, and fitted at the centre with a pair of externally-flush rivets retaining a fragment of the internal connecting-leather.
title:	breastplate (body armour)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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/18570





TECHNIQUES
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of rounded, medially-ridged form, composed of a breastplate proper, covering the thorax, and an upward overlapping plackart, covering the abdomen; hammered, shaped, riveted with fluted decoration
hammered
TECHNIQUES
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medially-ridged
TECHNIQUES
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formed

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1480 - 1480
creation date earliest:	1480
creation date latest:	1480
culture:	15th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 20.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 39

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 2.23

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 35.5



CITATIONS
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Katalog der Leibrüskammer
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