Maximilian one piece left tasset. 1505-10
Good full form. For the left. decorated with three sprays of flutes, each flute accented by engraved lines. Edges with heavily roped inward turned border and parallel recess. Upper ends of the flutes decorated with file notches. Lining rivets in the recessed border retaining portions of a leather band. One piece tassets are less common in this era than ones formed of multiple plates. The armor for man c. 1505 in Philadelphia has one piece tassets of similar form (without flutes, like the rest of the armor). Another example of one piece tassets is found on the armor for Friedrich II von Zollern in the KHM (A240 - S.221).
Provenance: Joe Kindig Jr. (1891-1971) then by descent.
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