Composite armour: M.1.1A-H-1936

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Current Location: Gallery 31 (Armoury)

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown

Entities

Composite armour

Description

Whole composite armour, for field or cavalry use, decorated with fluting in the Maximilian fashion. Consisting of an armet, a collar, a breast plate with skirt and tassets, a backplate with skirt, a pair of spaudlers and vambraces, a pair of gauntlets, a pair of cuisses and polyens, and a pair of greaves and sabatons.

Notes

History note: Stated in the manuscript catalogues of the Stead Collection to have come from a Dresden collection.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1936-01-15) by Stead, E. W. and Gilbert

Dating

16th Century, Early#
Circa 1510 CE - 1520 CE

References and bibliographic entries

The Knight and the Blast Furnace, A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages and the Modern Period page(s): p. 613

Identification numbers

Accession number: M.1.1A-H-1936
Primary reference Number: 17686
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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