IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18598
accession number:	HEN.M.119-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 13 April 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Backplate, for use by an harquebusier, with punched engraved and gilt decoration. Formed in one-piece with a narrow flange at the waist.  It has straight sides and is only weakly shaped to the shoulder-blades.  Its arm-openings, its high neck-opening and its waist flange have plain inward turns bordered by round-headed lining-rivets with circular internal washers.  A pair of large flat-headed rivets at each shoulder retain fragments of the missing shoulder-straps.  The inner rivet at the left shoulder is a later replacement.  The right shoulder is pierced with a wiring-hole.  A rivet-hole pierced at each side of the waist served to attach a missing waist belt.
The backplate is decorated with recessed bands and borders of punched, engraved and gilt scrolling foliage, involving, in the vertical bands, trophies of arms.
title:	backplate (body armour)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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/18598


SUBJECTS
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trophies
foliage
trophies
foliage



TECHNIQUES
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formed in one-piece with a narrow flange at the waist; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with recessed borders and bands of punched, engraved and gilt scrolling foliage
hammered
TECHNIQUES
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patinating
TECHNIQUES
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formed

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1680 - 1680
creation date earliest:	1680
creation date latest:	1680
culture:	17th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 16.9

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 46

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 1.81

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 35.5