IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18108 accession number: HEN.M.24B-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 6 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Breastplate and associated tassets, for use by a pikeman. The breastplate is of late 'peascod' fashion with a deep flange at the waist, forming an integral skirt. Its arm-openings and deep, narrow neck-opening have plain inward turns. The turns and the upper end of the skirt are each bordered by two rows of round-headed rivets. The breastplate is decorated with three bands that diverge from the waist to the neck and arm-openings where they merge with similar bands, in each case formed of pairs of deeply-incised lines. Each side of the chest is pierced with a pair of holes that would originally have been fitted with a pierced stud and swivel-hook to engage the shoulder-straps of the backplate. Each side of the breastplate is pierced with a pair of rivet-holes, probably for the attachment of hasps to connect it to the backplate. The upper end of the skirt is decorated with a raised band accompanied by a single incised line. Each side of the skirt is fitted with a pair of hinges for the suspension of a pair of tassets. The outer hinge in each case is of large, elaborate form and attached by a swivel-hook and stud at its upper end, and seven rivets at its lower end. The inner hinge is of small rectangular form and attached by a single rivet top and bottom. The rectangular tassets are each formed in one piece and embossed to simulate seven lames. Each lame is decorated at its upper edge with a single incised line. The lower and lateral edges of the tassets have plain, inward turns accompanied by recessed borders containing round-headed lining-rivets. Each tasset is decorated with three vertical lines of round-headed rivets. Part of the composite pikeman's armour HEN.M.24A-B-1933. title: breastplate (body armour) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before testator, Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18108 TECHNIQUES ---------- the breastplate is of late 'peascod' fashion with a deep flange at the waist, forming an integral skirt, the rectangular tassets are each formed in one piece and embossed to simulate seven lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with raised bands, recessed borders, rivets and incised lines hammering TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1630 - 1630 creation date earliest: 1630 creation date latest: 1630 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 19.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 63.5 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 3.96 dimension: Width units: cm value: 59.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Civil War Exhibition CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of European Armour at the Fitzwilliam Museum ---