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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1660 - 1740; Classification(s): weapons, sword; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.101-1879]
Description: Of very unusual for with a small sword-like blade. The steel blade is thin, straight and double edged, of very flattened diamond section with long thin point. The hilt, of old Hindu basket form, comprises a figure-8 guard with cusps at the waist, angled across the centre, short quillons with globular terminals and langets with pierced lotus bud terminals. The guard is extended into a wide knucklebow decorated with incised lines. The grip is probably thin and of iron, but it is covered with the original padded fabric grip, which has been painted black. The pommel is a narrow, deep dish embossed with petals, and filled inside with black mastic obscuring the origins of a short curved finial.
There is a 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 | 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=late 17th or early 18th century; start=1660; end=1740 | 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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