Current Location: Gallery 31 (Armoury)
Maker(s)
Production:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Pair of tassets for light field use, decorated with bands in the 'black and white' fashion. Each is of nearly rectangular outline and formed of six upward overlapping lames that widen very slightly to their lower end. The first and sixth lames are slightly longer than the rest. The lateral and lower edges of each tasset have plain, inward turns. The lames are connected to one another by modern round-headed rivets at their inner and outer ends, and by a modern internal leather at their centres. The leather was originally secured by pairs of rivets, but is now secured by single rivets, except in the case of the sixth lame of the right tasset where a pair of rivets are still employed. Secured by single, modern, round-headed rivets at the upper edge of each tasset are three modern, double-ended, tongued iron suspension-buckles. Part of the composite half-armour HEN.M.2A-E-1933
Notes
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
Legal notes
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1933-03-16)
by
Henderson, James Stewart
Dating
17th Century, Early#
Production date:
circa
AD 1610
Note
Each tasset is decorated with raised bands and borders against a blackened ground in the 'black and white' fashion. The border at the lower edge bulges inwards between the vertical bands.
The bright bands of the tassets show a light to medium patination: somewhat heavier on the left tasset than the right. The intervening blackened areas are worn through to bright metal at some points.
Components of the work
Buckles
composed of
iron (metal)
Leathers
composed of
leather
Right
Depth 5.5 cm
Height 27.5 cm
Weight 0.74 kg
Width 27.2 cm
Left
Depth 6 cm
Height 27.5 cm
Weight 0.7 kg
Width 27 cm
Decoration
Materials used in production
Steel
Techniques used in production
Hammering
: Each is of nearly rectangular outline and formed of six upward overlapping lames that widen very slightly to their lower end; hammered, shaped, with banded decoration
Patinating
Forming
Identification numbers
Accession number: HEN.M.2D-1933
Primary reference Number: 17713
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Wednesday 14 September 2022
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
