Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
The steel blade is straight, double edged with a full length medial rib and a reinforced point. The hilt has a convex guard attached to long, fluted arms ending in lotus bud terminals at the rear, joined by a pair of bars swelling to their centres that form the grip. At the front of the guard are heavy cusped and scalloped reinforces attached to the blade by three rivets. Inside the guard is a raised cusped and scalloped decorative band. The hilt is painted black inside, the rest polished bright and pitted from earlier corrosion. There is a long gash cutting right through the blade
Notes
History note: From Ganjam, Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see documentation Elgood 2004)
Legal notes
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Measurements and weight
Blade Length: 81.5 cm
Overall Length: 95 cm
Weight: 625 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 is the same as that of O.91.1879
Components of the work
Blade
composed of
steel
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 102
- Method of creation: Inscribed
- Type: Tag
Inscription present: adhesive
- Text: 102
- Method of creation: Printed
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: O.102-1879
Primary reference Number: 158417
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
