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Description: | Artist: Adams, George William, maker;
Production Place: North India; Date(s): 1800 - 1849; Classification(s): weapons, knife; Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912 [TEMP-AA-ARMOURWITHOUTNUMBERS12]
Description: The blade is straight and single-edged, in watered steel (Wootz), in the kirk nabardan (Muhammad’s ladder) pattern. It is fitted with a plain oval section steel hilt, the join hidden by gold koftgari decoration, a large panel of foliage at the forte of the blade, bands of floral scrolls down the back front and pommel of the hilt, and short arabesques extended into lutus buds at either side. At the end is a tiny gilt tang button. The scabbard is of wood covered in tawny red velvet, with two bands of silver thread tape round the throat and one down the back hiding the seam. At the end is a silver chape made in England to match. | 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: | Adams George William weapons knife | Temporal: | name=19th century; start=1800; end=1849 | 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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