Right Tasset
Dateabout 1580
Mediumpainetd steel with modern leather
Dimensions30.5 × 24.1 × 14.6 cm (12 × 9 1/2 × 5 3/4 in.), 1 lb 14 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
MarkingsTerminal lame of fauld has a re-struck, single "antler" mark of Wurttemberg to left of fork on inner face; another antler on lowest (6th ) lame of both tassets; right inside of breast with black-painted letters "VK" (?) ; "V"-shaped nicks and serial dots throughout.
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.1144.6
Description(Also see individual records) Steel with blackening. Open BURGONET of 2 halves with sides of medium-height comb embossed in "wave" motif, with large lily embossed on sides of skull. "ALMAIN COLLAR" of 2 plates with laminated spaudlers, these having wave motif borders and raised bright bands & roped edges. Collar is extensively re-worked. Long bellied BREASTPLATE with defined medial ridge that is dipped above waist, & with divergent bright, raised bands. Two-lame FAULD. "Wave" motif in frieze below neck & at gussets, and outer edges of fauld. Laminated oblong TASSETS of 6 lames each, now held by buckles & straps, but probably originally riveted to the fauld. Boxy associated BACKPLATE decorated later, with associated culet lame, and having edges inwardly turned & plain.Provenance(Possibly) ex-S.J. Whawell Collection, lot 382 (p. 67) 5 May 1927 sale at Sotheby's Theodore Offerman. Purchased by John W. Higgins on 27 September 1927 from Theodore Offerman (of New York Galleries). Given to the Higgins Armory Museum on 15 December 1931. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, Janaury 2014.
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Michel Witz the Younger
1530s