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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1600 - 1700; Classification(s): weapons, hilt; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.191-1879]
Description: Pata hilt. Carved from a single piece of wood, with a long tubular cuff with a medial ridge decorated with bands of hatching, the main edge bordered by a triple row of carved mouldings with a central raised triangle, and a rounded section for the hand carved with medial ridge, a fleur-de-lys at the top rear, and edged with a set of mouldings matching those at the cuff edge. At the front is a round section, capped with an iron ferrule, and slotted to take a wooden practice blade. Inside is hollow, with a narrow aperture for the arm, a thin transverse grip dowelled into a square hole, and two slots running up the inside. The cuff edge is badly hacked and damaged on the inside | 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 hilt | 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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