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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker;
Production Place: North India; Date(s): 1700 - 1799; Classification(s): weapons, dagger; Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912, C.B. Marlay Bequest [ARM.181-1912]
Description: The steel blade has a medial rib swelling into a slightly reinforced point. At the forte is a large swollen ricasso block with dentated edge. The hilt is of rock crystal, with a waisted, faceted section at the centre and a silver gilt central band with a medial moulding. The scabbard is of wood covered with black silk. The chape and throat are of silver gilt, the subsidiary edges scalloped with central lotus buds, the throat with a small fretted hinged loop for attachment to a sash. | 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=18th century; start=1700; end=1799 | 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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