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Production:
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Description
Pair of tassets, for infantry use, decorated with bands in the 'black and white' fashion. Each formed of six upward-overlapping lames that narrow slightly to their lower end and extend to just above the level of the knees. The lowest lame is deeper than the rest. Its convex lower edge has a file-roped inward turn. The inner ends of the first and second lames are cut away in a concave curve over the crotch. The lames are connected to one another by modern, round-headed sliding-rivets with octagonal internal washers at their outsides, and modern internal leathers secured by single rivets at their insides and centres. Attached at either end of the upper edge of the first lame by a single flat-headed rivet is a modern, double-ended, tongued iron suspension buckle. Riveted within each end of the fifth lame is a modern buff leather strap. The inner strap terminates in a modern, double-end, tongued iron buckle. Part of the composite half armour HEN.M.3A-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
16th Century, Late
Production date:
AD 1590
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 is of ogee form.
The bright bands of the tassets show a slightly mottled light to medium patination. The intervening blackened areas are worn through to bright metal at some points.
Components of the work
Buckle
composed of
iron (metal)
Strap
composed of
leather
Right
Depth 9.3 cm
Height 37.0 cm
Weight 0.95 kg
Width 25.6 cm
Left
Depth 9.4 cm
Height 35.0 cm
Weight 0.91 kg
Width 24.3 cm
Bands And Borders
Decoration
Parts
Materials used in production
Steel
Techniques used in production
Hammering
: Each formed of six upward-overlapping lames that narrow slightly to their lower end and extend to just above the level of the knees; hammered, shaped, riveted, with banded decoration in 'black and white' fashion
Forming
Identification numbers
Accession number: HEN.M.3D-1933
Primary reference Number: 17721
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 7 January 2016
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
