Production: Unknown
Poll-plate of a shaffron, for field use. Formed of a single plate strongly curved transversely and slightly curved longitudinally. It has a straight rear edge and a very slightly convex front edge. Its front corners are strongly cut out in concave curves to clear the horse's ears. The rear edge and the cut-outs of the poll-plate have strongly notched inward turns accompanied by recessed borders. A recessed band, merging into the rear border, decorates the plate medially. A modern, brass-capped, round-headed rivet with a circular, internal washer located at the centre of the front edge of the plate, retains a small fragment of the leather hinge that at one time connected the poll-plate to its shaffron. Later holes at either end of the front edge of the poll-plate are now plugged with round-headed rivets of brass. A pair of lace-holes at the centre of the rear edge of the poll-plate, originally serving to connect it to a crinet, are now also plugged with brass-capped, round-headed rivets. Similar rivets plug holes at either end of the rear edge of the poll-plate, originally serving to attach the straps that fastened the plate around the horse's neck. A small, modern wiring-hole is pierced just to the outside of each of these rivets. Together with the poll-plate HEN.M.159A-1933
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Depth: 16.5 cm
Height: 11 cm
Weight: 0.31 kg
Width: 20 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
16th Century, Mid#
Circa
1550
CE
-
1560
CE
South German
The poll-plate is bright with a light patination. The surfaces between the recessed bands and borders were probably originally blackened in the 'black and white' fashion.
Rivets
composed of
brass (alloy)
Borders
Decoration
Parts
Hammered
: Formed of a single plate strongly curved transversely and slightly curved longitudinally; hammered, shaped, riveted, with recessed borders and notched inward turns
Patinating
Formed
Accession number: HEN.M.159B-1933
Primary reference Number: 18661
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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