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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1600 - 1700; Classification(s): weapons, sword; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.18-1879]
Description: The steel blade is straight and double edged, with an almost rounded point. At the forte are heavy, long reinforces attached by three rivets with petalled iron washers, with cusped lotus bud terminals and bands of incised meander with a vermillion enamel ground at the edges. The hilt, of old Hindu basket form, comprises a figure-8 guard with cusps at the waist, angled across the centre, short quillons with rounded terminals and langets with lotus bud terminals. The guard is extended into a wide plain knucklebow. 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, ending in a flower bud. The hilt and blade are polished bright and pitted from earlier corrosion. There are brazed repairs on the knucklebow | 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=17th Century; start=1600; end=1700 | 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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