IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158322
accession number:	O.18-1879

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 1 October 2012

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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
title:	sword

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Robert Taylor
creditline: Given by Robert Taylor, MA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158322





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1600 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1600
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Blade Length
units: cm
value: 84

dimension: Overall Length
units: cm
value: 98

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 1275



CITATIONS
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List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879
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