Maker: Unknown
Small straight steel double edged leaf shaped blade of almost flat section, two rough incised lines suggesting the medial ridge. At the base of the blade are two slight wings. The blade is brazed to a separate socket, which has a brazed seam down one side, a dentated lower edge, and two small reinforcing rings, the upper decorated with diagonal incised lines, the lower a slightly cog-like ring which helps secure the socket to a fragment of the original bamboo haft.
History note: Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see documentation Elgood 2004)
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Blade Length: 11 cm
Blade Width Max: 3.4 cm
Overall Length: 31 cm
Socket Length: 11.6 cm
Weight: 116 g
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
17th Century#
Circa
1600
CE
-
1700
CE
Compare the cog-like reinforces of 47.1879 and 49.1879, clearly from the same workshop.
Accession number: O.45-1879
Primary reference Number: 158353
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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