TWO COMPOSITE NORTH GERMAN TASSETS FOR THE RIGHT THIGH, WITH LATER 'BLACK AND WHITE DECORATION', EARLY 17TH CENTURY
each consisting of three medially-ridged upward-overlapping lames of which the last is deeper than the rest and has a convex lower edge, the first is boxed at its inner end and fitted to either side end of its upper edge with a double-ended iron buckle (in each case old but not original) and the first two are cut at their inner ends with a shallow notch, the main edges of each tasset formed with a plain inward turn accompanied by recessed border, its subsidiary edges formed with bevelled edges, and the lowest lame decorated in low relief at it centre and burnished bright, along with the borders, against a black-painted ground (the bright parts lightly pitted throughout)
22.9 cm; 9 in (the first); 22.2 cm; 8¾ in (the second)
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