IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 17981 accession number: HEN.M.16D-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A pair of tassets, for use by a cuirassier. Each formed of eight medially-ridged, upward-overlapping lames that are increasingly curved to the thigh from the top to the bottom. The inner edge of each tasset is cut away from the bottom of the third lame to the bottom of the eighth lame. The lames are connected to one another by three internal leathers, except at the outer ends of the fifth to eighth lames where the outer leather gives way to sliding-rivets. Each tasset retains a large part of its leather lining-bands. Riveted within each end of the eighth lame is a leather loop that served to tie the tasset around the leg. On the right tasset, the inner loop is incomplete and the outer loop is missing. The first lame of each tasset is fitted with three modern, double-ended, tongued, iron suspension-buckles. The eighth lame, which is longer than the rest, is decorated with three groups of brass-capped, round-headed rivets in rosette formation. The main edges of the tassets are decorated with file-roped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders. The secondary edges are filed with ogees at their centres and with two low cusps at each side. A crack at the centre of the lower edge of the right tasset is repaired with a riveted internal patch. Part of the composite half armour HEN.M.16A-F-1933. title: tassets NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17981 TECHNIQUES ---------- each formed of eight medially-ridged, upward-overlapping lames that are increasingly curved to the thigh from the top to the bottom; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roped decoration and recessed borders hammering TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1620 - 1620 creation date earliest: 1620 creation date latest: 1620 culture: 17th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown