Maker: Unknown
The steel blade is double edged and double curved, with two fullers running most of its length. The hilt is also of steel, with a beaked pommel carved as a stylised parrot’s head, a plain tubular grip, slightly curved, and a stepped section at the blade originally decorated with incised crenelations, sandwiching a section of horn. Polished bright with areas of patination from its earlier corrosion
History note: From Ganjam. Probably from Tanjore arsenal
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Blade Length: 25 cm
Overall Length: 34.5 cm
Weight: 226 g
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
17th Century#
Circa
1600
CE
-
1700
CE
Compare Elgood 2004: 180 fig 16.39 for a glass-hilted example from Government Museum Chennai, no. 2168, and Elgood’s comments about the popularity of this form of hilt in the south during the 17th century
Blade composed of steel
Accession number: O.144-1879
Primary reference Number: 159911
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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