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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1500 - 1600; Classification(s): weapons, sword; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.12-1879]
Description: The steel blade is straight and double edged, flaring towards the point. A medial ridge runs the full length of the blade, with a hollow ground at either side. The hilt comprises a figure-8 guard, angled across the centre, with cusped wings chiselled in the form of seated lions, and long, heavy blade-shaped reinforces extending well down the blade, decorated overall with fine incised bands of scrolling foliage and secured by three rivets with copper alloy petalled washers. The thin grip swells to a moulding at the centre, and there is a small, deep, dish pommel inside which is a dome and multi-layered lotus bud finial. The guard is pierced with a pair of holes at either side of the missing lining, and is decorated on the outside with a band of engraved flowers. The side of the pommel dish are engraved with fine lotus flower petals. The ground of all the engraved decoration retains its original vermillion paint, rubbed away in places. The hilt is otherwise in its original black finish, the blade polished bright and covered with grease | 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=16th century; start=1500; end=1600 | 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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