Unknown (Possibly)
Breastplate, for infantry use. Formed of a medially-ridged main plate and a waist-lame of deep-bellied form. The main plate has concave neck and arm-openings. The neck-opening has a file-roped inward turn bordered by a V-shaped rib enclosed by a pair of incised lines. The arm-openings are each bordered by an incised line and pierced at their upper and lower ends with a rivet-hole for the attachment of a missing gusset. Pierced just below each armpit is a later wiring-hole. Pierced to either side of the neck-opening is a rivet-hole for the attachment of a missing shoulder-strap. Overlapping the lower edge of the main plate, and attached to it at either side by a modern round-headed rivet, is a deep waist-plate which is bordered at its upper edge by a single incised line, and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a skirt. The flange is pierced at either side with a rivet-hole for the attachment of a missing skirt. Later wiring-holes are pierced just to the outside of each of these rivet-holes, and to either side of the waist, just above the angle of the flange.
History note: From the armoury of the Earls of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire, sold by Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1917, 23 June 1921 and 14 June 1923. Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Depth: 18.0 cm
Height: 45.3 cm
Weight: 4.19 kg
Width: 36.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
16th Century, Mid#
Production date:
circa
AD 1555
The breastplate is bright with a mottled patination suggesting that its surface originally showed a ' black from the hammer' finish.
Possibly English or Flemish
Decoration
Main Plate
Parts
Hammered
: Formed of a medially-ridged main plate and a waist-lame of deep-bellied form; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roped and incised decoration
Patinating
Formed
Accession number: HEN.M.116-1933
Primary reference Number: 18594
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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