IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18556
accession number:	HEN.M.102-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 19 April 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Pot helmet, for use by an harquebusier. Formed of a skull, a pivoted peak with triple-bar face-defence, a neck-defence of two lames, and a pair of pendant cheek-pieces.  The hemispherical skull is formed in two halves joined by a turn to the left along a low medial comb.  The moderately broad, slightly downturned and obtusely-pointed peak is fitted on its underside with a face-defence formed of three bars of square section that are joined together in a forward-projecting scroll under the chin.  The neck-defence is formed of two lames of which the longer upper one is embossed to simulate three lames.  The cheek-pieces, which are now detached, have curved front and rear edges that converge towards their lower end where they are fitted with leather loops forming the ends of the lining-bands.  The skull and neck-defence retain fragments of a fabric lining-band.  The main edges of the helmet have plain inward turns accompanied, in the case of the peak and the neck-defence, by recessed borders.
title:	pot helmet

NOTES
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type: history note
value: A detached wooden tag states that the helmet was acquired from the Tower of London Armoury, 1926. Mr James Stewart Henderson of  'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J.S. Henderson
creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18556





TECHNIQUES
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formed of a skull, a pivoted peak with triple-bar face-defence, a neck-defence of two lames, and a pair of pendant cheek-pieces; hammered, shaped, riveted, with embossed neck-defence and recessed borders
hammered
TECHNIQUES
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painting
TECHNIQUES
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formed

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1640 - 1640
creation date earliest:	1640
creation date latest:	1640
culture:	17th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 33.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 31.2

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 1.98

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 23.2