Maker: Unknown
Leaf shaped steel blade of almost flat section, with a sharp medial ridge bordered by broad fullers, much narrower fullers bordering the edges, leaving low rounded ribs in relief, and a slightly reinforced point. The blade is attached to a separate socket, has a wing-like section at the top, and has small dags at the base. Its seam is open, and it is secured to the blade by a broad, rounded reinforced decorated with double incised lines, and with a broad, low slightly cog-like reinforce at the base. The panel below the wings is decorated with incised foliage, there is a similar band of incised foliage between bands of ring and dot within incised lines below the first reinforce, and similar ornament at the bottom. The dags at the base are somewhat damaged. A fragment of the original wooden haft survives. The blade and upper moulding have been polished bright, the remainder of the socket left uncleaned
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Blade Length: 23.5 cm
Blade Width Max: 2.6 cm
Overall Length: 47.5 cm
Socket Length: 21.5 cm
Weight: 284 g
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
17th Century, Late
Circa
1660
CE
-
1700
CE
Compare the cog-like reinforces of O.47-1879 and O.45-1879, not exactly the same, but from a similar workshop. Also the spearhead from the Government Museum Chennai, no. 2235 (see documentation Elgood 2004), for which Elgood suggests a late 17th century date
Blade composed of steel
Accession number: O.56-1879
Primary reference Number: 158366
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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