IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18716
accession number:	M.20-1943

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Wood covered with canvas and painted. Slightly wider at bottom than at top, with rounded corners at top. The corners at bottom have been damaged. Square beak at top, cut away to a point below. Flat vertical gutter with sloping sides, down the middle. Painted with St. George and the Dragon. In the border of each corner at the top is a rose in splendour. On the back is a central leather (?) hand-grip which splays out into four ends each attached to the pavise by 3 nails. There is a metal cross-bar at top and a cross-bar of the same material as the hand-grip below the grip. There are four staples and a place for a fifth.
title:	pavise

NOTES
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type: history note
value: A.W. Cox from whom purchased with the F. Leverton Harris Fund.


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
creditline: Purchased with the Leverton Harris Fund

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18716

PEOPLE
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St George

SUBJECTS
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dragon
St George and the Dragon
dragon
St George and the Dragon



CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1450 - 1500
creation date earliest:	1450
creation date latest:	1500
culture:	15th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 113



CITATIONS
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Edged Weapons, Militaria, Antique Firearms, Arms, Armour, Orders,.....
The introduction and use of the pavise in the Hundred Years War
Pavises in the Royal Armouries collection
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