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Description
Zischägge, for light cavalry use. Formed of a one-piece skull, a broad flat peak, a sliding nasal-bar with a retaining staple and wing-headed locking screw, a broad neck-defence of four upward-overlapping lames and a pair of pendant cheek-pieces each of three downward-overlapping lames. The hemispherical skull is decorated with sixteen radiating flutes of V-shaped sections, each decorated at its crest with file-roping and separated by three evenly-spaced, radiating incised lines. The flutes descend to a recessed border with a vandyked upper edge. The apex of the skull is surmounted by a radially-fluted conical finial riveted through a large, star-shaped washer. The main edges of the obtusely-pointed peak and neck-defence each have file-roped inward turns. The secondary edges of the neck-defence and the cheek-pieces are decorated with a series of filed ogees. The cheek-pieces widen to their mid-points and then narrow again to their rounded lower ends. Their upper lames have elaborately fretted ventilation-holes. The sliding nasal-bar has an elaborately shaped and pierced finial. Part of the composite half armour HEN.M.16A-F-1933.
Notes
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
Legal notes
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Measurements and weight
Depth: 42.0 cm
Height: 30.0 cm
Weight: 2.0 kg
Width: 27.0 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1933-03-16)
by
Henderson, James Stewart
Dating
17th Century#
Circa
1600
CE
-
1630
CE
Note
The skull of the helmet is authentic, but all other parts of it are modern restorations.
Components of the work
Border
Decoration
Parts
Materials used in production
Steel
Techniques used in production
Hammering
: Formed of a one-piece skull, a broad flat peak, a sliding nasal-bar with a retaining staple and wing-headed locking screw, a broad neck-defence of four upward-overlapping lames and a pair of pendant cheek-pieces each of three downward-overlapping lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roping, incised lines, recessed borders and filed ogee decoration
Patinating
Forming
Identification numbers
Accession number: HEN.M.16A-1933
Primary reference Number: 17970
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Friday 8 January 2016
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
