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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.84-1879]
Description: The steel blade is straight and single edged for most of its length. It is quite flexible, and is from a European broadsword. At either side are fragments of European inscriptions. 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, dome and pierced finial. A double curved knucklebow runs from the lower quillon to end in a small dragon head by the pommel. The entire hilt is covered with engraved flowers, and the gold outlines of these survive on the pommel. The blade is bright with 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=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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