Maker: Unknown
The steel blade is European, curved and single edged for most of its length, filed at the forte, point and false edge into saw-teeth with sharp cusps. The iron hilt is of Indo-Muslim type, with short quillons with rounded terminals, medium length langets with stylised bud finials, a rounded baluster grip, wide, shallow dish pommel with a dome and pierced finial. The whole hilt is covered with floral scrolls in gold koftgari. The blade has numerous areas of filiform corrosion, probably where the metal is delaminating, and much of the koftgari has been rubbed off the hilt.
History note: No provenance recorded.
Length: 885 mm
Weight: 1015 g
19th Century, Early#
1800
CE
-
1850
CE
Blade Length 760 mm
Accession number: TEMP-AA-ARMOURWITHOUTNUMBERS15
Primary reference Number: 162549
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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