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Maker(s)
Production:
Unknown
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Categories
Description
Burgonet, for light field use, decorated with bands amid borders in the 'black and white' fashion. Formed of a rounded one-piece skull with a high roped comb and an integral peak, a pair of hinged cheek-pieces, and a neck-defence of four upward-overlapping lames. The slightly downturned, medially-ridged peak projects forward to an obtuse central point. Each cheek-piece is pierced with five small ventilation-holes within a circular central boss. The lower edge of the cheek-piece is flanged outwards to serve as a continuation of the neck-defence. Like the neck-defence, the flange of the cheek-piece is unusually deep. The main edges of the burgonet, except for those at the front of each cheek-piece, have file-roped inward turns. The burgonet is decorated with recessed bands and borders in the 'black and white' fashion. The intervening spaces were originally black from the hammer, but have since been polished bright.
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: 32.0 cm
Height: 32.7 cm
Weight: 1.7 kg
Width: 28.5 cm
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1933-03-16)
by
Henderson, James Stewart
Dating
16th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1580
Note
German, Nuremberg
The cheek-pieces and the neck-defence are inaccurate modern restorations. The neck-defence is formed of old pieces of armour that have been cut and reworked to their present form.
The helmet is bright with a medium patination overall.
Components of the work
Bands
Borders
Cheek-pieces
Decoration
Parts
Peak
Materials used in production
Steel
Techniques used in production
Hammered
: Formed of a rounded one-piece skull with a high roped comb and an integral peak, a pair of hinged cheek-pieces, and a neck-defence of four upward-overlapping lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, with pierced ventilation-holes, and decorated with recessed bands and borders in the 'black and white' fashion, with file-roping
Patinating
Formed
Identification numbers
Accession number: HEN.M.83-1933
Primary reference Number: 18507
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 28 February 2017
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
