Production: Unknown
Backplate for light field use, decorated with bands in the 'black and white' fashion. Formed in one piece, with a flange at the waist. Its arm-openings, its broad, shallow neck-opening and its waist-flange have plain inward turns. Attached by a pair of round-headed rivets at the right shoulder is a modern shoulder-strap. Attached by a single round-headed rivet with a circular internal washer at the left shoulder is a fragment of a modern shoulder-strap. Attached by a pair of round-headed rivets at each side of the waist is a modern leather strap forming a waist-belt. The right strap terminates in a modern single-ended, tongued, iron buckle with a roller. Part of the composite half-armour HEN.M.2A-E-1933
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Depth: 16.6 cm
Height: 39 cm
Weight: 1.79 kg
Width: 36.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
17th Century, Early#
Production date:
circa
AD 1610
The backplate is decorated with raised bands and borders against a blackened ground in the 'black and white' fashion. The borders at the neck and arm-opening bulge inwards between the vertical bands.
The bright bands of the backplate show a light to medium patination. The intervening blackened areas are worn through to bright metal at some points. The metal shows extensive delamination.
Buckle
composed of
iron (metal)
Straps
composed of
leather
Decoration
Hammering
: Formed in one piece, with a flange at the waist; hammered, shaped, with banded decoration
Patinating
Forming
Accession number: HEN.M.2E-1933
Primary reference Number: 17714
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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