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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1700 - 1800; Classification(s): weapons, sword; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.11-1879]
Description: The steel blade is straight and double edged, widening slightly to the point. There is a short ricasso under the langets. The hilt, of Indo-Muslim form, comprises short quillons with rounded terminals and langets with lotus bud terminals, a double curved knucklebow with a stylised dragon finial attached to the lower quillon. The grip is of baluster form, and the pommel broad, almost flat dish inside which is a small dome with a four petalled washer and a short curved spike finial. The hilt and blade are polished bright and pitted and stained from earlier corrosion. There are traces of the original leather binding on the grip and both quillons, oddly. | 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: | Unknown weapons sword | Temporal: | name=18th century; start=1700; end=1800 | 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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