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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1600 - 1700; Classification(s): weapons, dagger; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.133-1879]
Description: The steel blade is double edged and double curved, with two narrow and two wider fullers forming a chevron along most of its length. At the forte is a slight ricasso, with the remains of a raised lotus bud ornament at the centre. The hilt is also of steel, with a beaked pommel carved as a stylised parrot’s head, a plain tubular grip, slightly curved, and a stepped section at the blade. Polished bright with areas of patination from its 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 dagger | 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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