Left Tasset

Culture Austrian , Innsbruck

Dateabout 1540

Mediumsteel and leather

Dimensions1 lb 4 oz (weight)

ClassificationsArms and Armor

Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection

Terms

Object number2014.1173.4

DescriptionSteel, with original leathers. Trapezoidal and concave to the leg. Of five upwardly overlapping deep lames with full-length medial ridge, squared at ends, save topmost inner which curves to point. Four lower lames with bevelled edge, bracket-cut at mid-width. Perimeter has double-recessed band, with inwardly turned roped edge. Uppermost is hollow-flanged and file roped. Terminal lame embossed with seven-lobed palmette. Top lame with oblique set of two holes at ends, lower apparently original locations for buckles. Rough surface, exhibiting traces of hammer and file marks. Present iron buckles part of two pair, the mate to which found on the other tasset.
ProvenanceTrapp armory at Schloss Churburg, part of armor no.100., Sluderno, Italy to pre-1920. Guy F. Laking (London; no later than 1920) Clarence H. Mackay (Roslyn, L.I.), his A-24 Jacques Seligmann & Company (NYC). Purchased by Museum on July 18, 1939 from Jacques Seligmann & Co. (NYC), agents for estate of Clarence H. Mackay. Paid $500 fro suit. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, Janaury 2014.

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