IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18581 accession number: HEN.M.111-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 April 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Breastplate, for heavy cavalry use, decorated with fluting in the 'Maximilian' fashion. Formed of a strongly rounded main plate with moveable gussets at the arm-openings, a separate waist-plate and a folding lance-rest. The very shallow neck-opening of the main plate and the gussets have boldly roped inward turns emphasised by pairs of incised lines between each 'strand' of the roping. The main plate is pierced at the right armpit with a pair of vertically-aligned holes and, below them, with a further single hole for the attachment of a folding lance-rest. The latter is secured by two screws with internal, slotted cheese-heads, passing through the upper of the pair of holes and the isolated single hole, into its threaded base-plate. The curved base-plate is decorated with filed, radiating lobes that are alternately cross-hatched and plain. The hinged, curved arm of the lance-rest is decorated with close-set, filed grooves, forming serrations, on its front face and tip, and with geometrical patterns of filed lines, mostly paired, on its underside and ends. Except at its top and sides, the main plate of the breastplate is decorated with twenty-four, vertical, slightly diverging flutes, beneath three horizontal flutes separated by raised ribs emphasised by pairs of incised lines. The gussets at the arm-openings are secured to the main plate by modern, round-headed rivets with octagonal washers at their upper and lower ends. Those at the upper ends move within slots in the gussets. Attached to the scalloped top end of each gusset by a single, externally-flush rivet is a double-ended buckle with a central tongue, filed decoration and a plain, round-headed hasp. The right buckle is a modern restoration made to match the left. Fitted within the lower edge of the main-plate and secured to it by three modern round-headed rivets with octagonal internal washers (missing from the left one), is a waist-plate which is flanged outwards and pierced with a vertical slot at either end for the attachment of a missing skirt. The waist-plate is decorated at the waist-line with three fine, close-set, incised lines. title: breastplate (body armour) NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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/18581 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of a strongly rounded main plate with moveable gussets at the arm-openings, a separate waist-plate and a folding, hinged lance-rest; hammered, shaped, riveted, with filed, fluted and incised decoration, and raised ribs hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1520 - 1520 creation date earliest: 1520 creation date latest: 1520 culture: 16th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 15.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 36.5 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 3.273 dimension: Width units: cm value: 37.9