IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18186 accession number: M.13-1941 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 11 January 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Composite armour, comprising a kettle hat, bevor, breastplate with skirt, backplate with skirt, pair of basagues, pair of gauntlets, two cuisses and poleyns almost forming a pair, pair of greaves, mail shirt, pair of mail sabatons, pair of spaudlers and vambraces. title: composite armour NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the collection of Dr Bashford Dean, Riverdale, Long Island, New York. According to a manuscript note by F.H. Cripps-Day, dated December 1926, in his grangerised copy of G.F. Laking, A Record of European Armour and Arms, [section on jacks in volume titled 'mail'], now preserved in the Library of the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, 'I exchanged [a jack] with Dean for a Gothic Spanish suit made up. I wanted a Gothic suit but parted with a rare piece'. The jack, from a house in Tonbridge, Kent, is now part of the Bashford Dean Memorial Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Mr Francis Henry Cripps-Day. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mr F.H. Cripps-Day STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18186 CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1480 - 1520 creation date earliest: 1480 creation date latest: 1520 culture: 15th Century-16th Century# culture: 20th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- A Man-at-Arms of the late Fifteenth Century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_13_1941.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_13_1941.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_13_1941.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_13_1941.jpg height: 380 pixels width: 250 pixels