IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158408
accession number:	O.93-1879

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The steel blade is straight and single edged, narrowing towards the point, with a flat back accompanied by three fullers. The hilt, of old Hindu basket form, comprises a figure-8 guard with cusps at the waist, angled across the centre, with cusped wings secured by heavy staples to the guard, and heavy reinforces almost the full width of the blade and secured by a single rivets in flower-bud terminals. The guard is extended into a wide knucklebow decorated with a single groove at either side. The thin grip is swells to the centre, and retains fragments of its original leather binding. There is a broad, shallow dish pommel inside which is a broad low dome with a long spike finial, slightly curved, enabling the sword to be used with two hands. The hilt is covered with black paint, the blade polished bright and pitted from earlier corrosion
title:	sword

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see documentation Elgood 2004)


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
collection:	Robert Taylor
creditline: Given by Robert Taylor, MA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158408





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1600 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1600
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Blade Length
units: cm
value: 85.2

dimension: Overall Length
units: cm
value: 106.5

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 1365



CITATIONS
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List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879
Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865
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