Current Location: Gallery 31 (Armoury)
Maker(s)
Blade maker:
Unknown
Hilt maker:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
The steel blade is straight and double edged, narrowing to a rounded the point. It is quite flexible, and is from a European broadsword. The hilt comprises a figure-8 guard, angled across the centre, with cusped wings and long plain sword-shaped reinforces, attached by three rivets with iron rosette washers. Round the junction of the wings and reinforces is a band of iron. The thin grip swells to a central moulding and there is a small, deep, dish pommel lacking its dome. The hilt is covered with black paint, the blade polished bright and pitted from earlier corrosion.
At either side of the blade is the outline of part of an animal.
Legal notes
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Measurements and weight
Blade Length: 85 cm
Overall Length: 96.5 cm
Weight: 1010 g
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1879)
by
Taylor, Robert, MA
Dating
17th Century#
Circa
1600
CE
-
1700
CE
Note
The blade of this sword was probably made in Shotley Bridge and was imported into India where the hilt was fitted. European swords and blades were much prized in India and there is a long tradition of importing them and giving them Indian hilts.
Components of the work
Blade
composed of
steel
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: resembles the brush of the running fox mark of Passau
Inscription present: not one of the original brown tags, the original piece of Taylor string (but no tag)
- Text: 10
- Method of creation: Inscribed
- Type: Tag
Inscription present: adhesive paper label
Identification numbers
Accession number: O.10-1879
Primary reference Number: 158314
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Wednesday 12 May 2021
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
