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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker;
Production Place: North India; Date(s): 1800 - 1899; Classification(s): weapons, knife; Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912, C.B. Marlay Bequest [ARM.186.1912]
Description: The blade is straight and single edged, of watered (Wootz) steel, narrowing at the forte into an integral ferrule carved at the top with a lotus bud and decorated in gold koftgari with flowers and wavy lines. The hilt is of silver inlaid in niello with the gardens of paradise, with flowing rivers, plants and pavilions. The Pommel is divided into two ears. The scabbard is of wood covered in green velvet with silver throat and chape matching the hilt, with a knop terminal to the chape.
Inlaid in gold on the blade the maker’s name Baqr. | 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 knife | 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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