IDENTIFIERS
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id:	17960
accession number:	HEN.M.15F-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 8 January 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A pair of divisible, knee-length tassets, for use by a cuirassier. The tassets are each formed of nineteen upward-overlapping lames, terminating in winged poleyns, each formed of four lames that overlap outwards from the third which is shaped to the point of the knee.  The tassets can be separated between their thirteenth and fourteenth lames where they are connected to one another by studs and keyhole-slots.  The first lame in each instance is angled inward at its upper edge.  The centre of the inward-angled section is boxed to fit over the hinge that formerly connected it to the breastplate.  The first thirteen lames are connected to one another by three modern internal leathers secured by pairs of rivets.  The remaining lames of the tassets and their poleyns are connected to one another by rivets at their outer ends.  Many of the connecting-rivets are now missing.  The wings of the poleyns are of heart-shaped form with pronounced central puckers. The tassets have file-roped inward turns at their main edges, and are decorated with pairs of incised lines and filed nicks, cusps and ogees at their subsidiary edges. Part of the composite three-quarter armour HEN.M.15A-F-1933.
title:	tassets

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/17960


SUBJECTS
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foliage
foliage



TECHNIQUES
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each are formed of nineteen upward-overlapping lames, terminating in winged poleyns, each formed of four lames that overlap outwards from the third which is shaped to the point of the knee; hammered, shaped, riveted, hinged, decorated with file-roping, incised lines, filed nicks, cusps and ogees, fluting (left poleyn) and etching (right poleyn)
hammering
TECHNIQUES
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forming

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1620 - 1620
creation date earliest:	1620
creation date latest:	1620
culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 26.0

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 27.7

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 2.26

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 26.0