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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1800 - 1840; Classification(s): weapons, sword; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.71-1879]
Description: The steel blade is probably European, curved and single edged for most of its length, with a hollow ground back accompanied by a single, broad fuller. The iron hilt, of Indo-Muslim type, has short quillons with rounded terminals, short langets with stylised bud finials, a thin baluster grip, a thick, shallow dish pommel with a petalled washer, fluted dome and pierced finial. A double curved knucklebow runs from the lower quillon to end in a dragon head by the pommel. The quillon block and knucklebow are chiselled with leaves and fine ribs. The blade and hilt have numerous spots of staining and corrosion under the 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=early 19th Century; start=1800; end=1840 | 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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