|
Date: |
|
Description: | Steel club brass mounted hilt. China. 24.271
Clubs of this type made of iron were referred to as iron whips, and first appeared in the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD), and later again in the Daogong period (1821-1850 AD) of the Qing dynasty. There are single or twin jointed iron staffs, both soft and hard. This one is a hard steel type made in the 19th century.
See Plate 59, fig. 1 and p. 229, Zhou Wei (1957), 'Zhongguo bing qi shi gao', Beijing.
Club with a brass-mounted wooden grip, surmounted by a brass square pommel and a brass guard. The wooden grip is inlaid with four brass floral designs. The body of the club is an 11-joint squared ornamental steel shaft, ending with a hexagonal knob and a blunt tip.
caption: General view of object no. 24.271. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | Weapons clubs (weapons: bludgeon) wood brass iron War- and Peace-making | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-60982 | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
-
sword
Swords of this type were…
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
|