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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): 1590; Classification(s): armour, tassets, 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; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.3D-1933]
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 | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | armour Unknown tassets | Temporal: | name=late 16th Century; start=1590; end=1590 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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