IDENTIFIERS
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id:	162289
accession number:	TEMP-AA-ARMOURWITHOUTNUMBERS-1

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 21 March 2013

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Of steel, with a pistol grip, short quillons, short, broad langets, a knucklebow with a duck’s-head terminal attached to the lower quillon, and a parrot head pommel. The whole is covered in floral scrolls in gold koftgari. The ‘eyes’ of the parrot are formed as raised rings roughly where an earlier rivet might pass through the pommel.
title:	Talwar hilt

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Old India House, Leadenhall, London


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

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/162289





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1899
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1899


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: mm
value: 177

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 232