IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18576 accession number: HEN.M.109-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 April 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Breastplate with skirt for infantry use. The breastplate is of rounded, one-piece construction, with outward-flanged neck and arm-openings. The edges of the flanges have plain inward turns. A rivet-hole for the attachment of a buckle is pierced at the top of each shoulder, while a pair of lace-holes is pierced at the centre of the neck-opening. The lower edge of the breastplate is flanged outwards to receive a skirt of two upward-overlapping lames, the second of which is deeper than the first and has its plain, inward-turned lower edge cut away in an arch over the crotch. The lames are connected to one another and to the breastplate at their outer ends by round-headed rivets with octagonal internal washers in the case of the upper two. All rivets, with the possible exception of the upper left one are replaced. Later suspension-holes have been pierced beneath each armpit and at either side of the lowest skirt-lame. title: breastplate (body armour) NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the Austrian Imperial Arsenal. Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18576 TECHNIQUES ---------- the breastplate is of rounded, one-piece construction, with outward-flanged neck and arm-openings; hammered, shaped, riveted hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1510 - 1510 creation date earliest: 1510 creation date latest: 1510 culture: 16th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Seusenhofer, Hans DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 12.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 44.5 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.393 dimension: Width units: cm value: 33.7 CITATIONS -------- Arms and Armour in the Fitzwilliam Augsburg Craftsmen and the Metallurgy of Innsbruck Armour The Knight and the Blast Furnace, A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages and the Modern Period Die Innsbrücker Plattnerkunst ---