1592999391000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-18664 1747160048191 1714399907000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-18664 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18664 f423b466-69d5-3414-aea7-30569fada11e 6 reference term-106608 adlib-term-106608 85afe28f-82f6-3c45-843f-9fa087e98260 armour Border reference term-120081 adlib-term-120081 857eb822-7a08-3da4-989b-401727b75e7c recessing Decoration reference term-5127 adlib-term-5127 8268a9a5-a090-3d77-aca9-5ee696f565e2 fluting Parts reference term-27411 adlib-term-27411 d5416ce2-4425-321c-af5c-8cb76b80a1b0 riveted Applied Arts 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. M.11-1945 1 accession number M.11-1945 18664 priref 18664 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18664 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18664 118 over the intials C.D. internally, at the right of its lower end painted in black 118/C.D. number parchment tag inscribed CRIPPS-DAY/112/Horse leg piece tag reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Mr F.H. Cripps-Day reference agent-149906 adlib-agent-149906 08670c3e-33b6-3062-9cf0-43c0402b1085 Cripps-Day, Francis Henry 1945 1945 1945-10-16 given Entry date: 1945-10-16 1480 1480 CE 1480 circa 1480 1490 1 1490 CE 1490 1490 production reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown South German The shaffron fitted to the front of the horses head and was held in place by leather straps and buckles. It would have been connected to the armour covering the top of the horse’s neck, the crinet, as part of a whole horse armour for use in battle. The fluted decoration, in ‘Gothic’ fashion, helped to strengthen the plate. The shaffron is bright with light patination and some pitting. It shows evidence of heavy cleaning in the form of grinding marks. reference term-106437 adlib-term-106437 59e72604-922d-3194-ac46-27c1c5ac76a4 15th Century, Late reference term-107815 adlib-term-107815 f41b2595-df3f-3974-ab1f-6a950ef5d12d literal Germany Germany country Germany reference term-40136 adlib-term-40136 28e1cd6e-7c25-339f-8cd2-2aaae536a0c5 steel Depth cm 8.4 Height cm 50.7 Weight kg 0.642 Width cm 21.8 reference term-80023 adlib-term-80023 1b0beeb5-dd7b-3147-bcb2-47bf21bd1f7a shaffron history note 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. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. p. 198, fig. 114 p. 198 reference publication-1838 adlib-publication-1838 77e8a585-c98a-39f3-a91b-cbd936b33c9e A Record of Armour Sales 1881-1924

reference term-80023 adlib-term-80023 1b0beeb5-dd7b-3147-bcb2-47bf21bd1f7a shaffron

shaffron 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 reference term-28775 adlib-term-28775 bbe63841-d546-33c4-ab44-2958e6dce7b2 hammered reference term-120073 adlib-term-120073 8f03d319-c397-37c8-a0e8-e23ef3cfdbbc patinating reference term-25748 adlib-term-25748 28a2a6ad-b9a5-33ca-982f-af924c102b3a formed object OBJECT