IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18368 accession number: M.4B-1939 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 14 April 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bevor, for wear with a sallet in a type of joust known in Germany as the Scharfrennen, which was fought with pointed lances in an open field. Formed in one-piece with a high medially-ridged upper half shaped to the chin and neck, and a deep lower half extending down the chest. The upper edge, which rises to its centre, has a plain, angular, outward turn. The lower edge, which has a truncated cusp at its centre is bevelled. The cusp is pierced with a pair of rivet-holes for the attachment of a hasp, while the outer ends of the lower edge are each pierced with a large bolt-hole to allow the bevor to be rigidly secured to the breastplate. The upper edge and sides of the bevor, down to the level of the shoulders, are fitted with twenty-two of an original twenty-four round-headed lining-rivets with circular internal washers retaining fragments of a leather lining-band. Except for the lowest one on each side, the rivets are arranged in pairs. They are replaced throughout. A further rivet-hole at the centre of the throat probably served to secure a lining-band across the neck. The neck is decorated with a pair of widely spaced incised lines. Bought together with the sallet M.4A-1939 title: bevor NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sold from the collection of Duke Victor von Ratibor of Schloss Grafenegg, by Gallerie Fischer, Lucerne, 2 September 1933, lot 10, pl. 9, for SF. 3,000-00. Lent to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Major H. D. Barnes, O.B.E., F.S.A., August 1936. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, National Art-Collections Fund and Mr E. Evelyn Barron, M.A., L.L.G., Peterhouse STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18368 SUBJECTS ------------------- jousting Scharfrennen Germany TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in one-piece with a high medially-ridged upper half shaped to the chin and neck, and a deep lower half extending down the chest; hammered, shaped, riveted, with incised lines and bevelled decoration hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1490 - 1490 creation date earliest: 1490 creation date latest: 1490 culture: 15th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 18 dimension: Height units: cm value: 27 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.46 dimension: Width units: cm value: 25.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Gothic Art CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Thirty-first Annual Report, for the Year 1939 National Art-Collections Fund Thirty-sixth Annual Report 1939 The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey National Art Collections Fund Forty-Fifth Annual Report 1948 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_4A_20_26_20B_1939.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 521 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_4A_20_26_20B_1939.jpg height: 729 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_4A_20_26_20B_1939.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 521 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_4A_20_26_20B_1939.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 250 pixels