Maker: Unknown
The whole hilt is missing. The steel blade is narrow, straight and double edged, with a slight full-length medial ridge. Attached to the forte by five rivets are crude reinforces, terminating in slightly onion shaped ends. The tang is thick and of square section, and retains fragments of the wooden lining of the lost grip, as well as spots of vermillion paint.
History note: Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see documentation: Elgood 2004).
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Blade Length: 107.5 cm
Overall Length: 118.5 cm
Weight: 760 g
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
16th Century
Circa
1500
CE
-
1600
CE
A label records this as an unnumbered object, but it is clearly one of the Taylor group. By elimination assigned O.23.1879, called on Taylor’s list a pata blade, Cambridge 1879: no. 13; as it retains a tang, this cannot be correct. However all the other detached blades also have their tangs.
Blade composed of steel
Accession number: O.23-1879
Primary reference Number: 158330
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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