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(Production)
Burgonet, for light field use. Formed of a skull, a pivoted visor, a pair of hinged cheek-pieces and a neck-defence of one lame. The skull, which is boxed in four vertical panels, rises at its apex to a pointed acorn-shaped finial. The broad, slightly downturned peak has short, slender arms and projects forward to an obtuse central point. The cheek-pieces are of square form. Each is pierced at its centre with five small, circular ventilation-holes in rosette formation. The lower edge of the neck-defence descends to an obtuse central point where it is pierced with a later pair of suspension-holes. The main edges of the helmet have file-roped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders.
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Depth: 31.5 cm
Height: 26.0 cm
Weight: 1.51 kg
Width: 25.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1933-03-16)
by
Henderson, James Stewart
Mid-16th Century
Circa
1550
CE
-
1560
CE
South German
The cheek-pieces and possibly also the neck-defence are associated with the skull, and have been cut and reworked to fit it.
The helmet is bright with a variable light to medium patination overall.
Borders Cheek-pieces Decoration Parts
Hammered : Formed of a skull, a pivoted visor, a pair of hinged cheek-pieces and a neck-defence of one lame; hammered, shaped, riveted, with pierced ventilation-holes, decorated with recessed borders and file-roping
Patinating Formed
Inscription present: green tag numbered '316'
Accession number: HEN.M.84-1933
Primary reference Number: 18509
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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"Burgonet"
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