IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18664 accession number: M.11-1945 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 April 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Shaffron, for field use, with fluted decoration in 'Gothic' fashion. Formed of a single plate closely shaped to the horse's face and narrowing towards its lower end. Its upper corners are cut away in shallow, concave curves. Its sides have large, semi-circular cut-outs for the eyes with strongly flanged edges. Its centrally-cusped lower edge is also flanged outwards and decorated with a recessed border that widens towards its centre. Its upper edge is boxed inwards in an inverted, u-shaped curve. A pair of rivet-holes is pierced at the centre of the upper edge for the attachment of a missing, hinged poll-plate. A further pair of holes is pierced at each side, just above the eye-openings. A series of nineteen rivet-holes border the lower edge of the shaffron and the flanges of the eye-opening to half way up the latter. Three rivet-holes, arranged in a horizontal line, are pierced across the brow, while another, filled with an externally-flush rivet, is pierced a short distance above the central one. These various rivet-holes mostly served to secure a lining, but may also in several instances have served to secure separate side-plates and perhaps also an escutcheon or plume-holder. title: shaffron NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the collection of the Hon. Robert Curzon, later Baron Zouche, at Parham, Sussex, sold by Sotheby's, London, 10-11 November, 1920, lot 94, for £42. It may conceivably have been acquired by him as part of a large quantity of early European armour deriving from the Imperial Arsenal at Istanbul that he purchased about 1840. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mr F.H. Cripps-Day STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18664 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of a single plate closely shaped to the horse's face and narrowing towards its lower end; hammered, shaped, riveted, with fluted decoration, and a recessed border decorating the centrally-cusped lower edge hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1480 - 1490 creation date earliest: 1480 creation date latest: 1490 culture: 15th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 50.7 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 0.642 dimension: Width units: cm value: 21.8 CITATIONS -------- A Record of Armour Sales 1881-1924 ---