Maker: Unknown
The steel blade is straight and double edged, with an almost rounded point. At the forte are heavy, long reinforces attached by three rivets with petalled iron washers, with cusped lotus bud terminals and bands of incised meander with a vermillion enamel ground at the edges. The hilt, of old Hindu basket form, comprises a figure-8 guard with cusps at the waist, angled across the centre, short quillons with rounded terminals and langets with lotus bud terminals. The guard is extended into a wide plain knucklebow. The grip is of baluster form, and the pommel broad, almost flat dish inside which is a small dome with a four petalled washer and a short curved spike finial, ending in a flower bud. The hilt and blade are polished bright and pitted from earlier corrosion. There are brazed repairs on the knucklebow
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Blade Length: 84 cm
Overall Length: 98 cm
Weight: 1275 g
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
17th Century#
Circa
1600
CE
-
1700
CE
Difficult to tell whether this is a 16th-century khanda blade and reinforces with a later hilt fitted, or all of a period. X-ray of the hilt might reveal this; although it has early and later features, it all appears superficially homogeneous
Blade composed of steel
Inscription present: adhesive
Accession number: O.18-1879
Primary reference Number: 158322
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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