Of steel, with a pistol grip, short quillons, short, broad langets, a knucklebow with a duck’s-head terminal attached to the lower quillon, and a parrot head pommel. The whole is covered in floral scrolls in gold koftgari. The ‘eyes’ of the parrot are formed as raised rings roughly where an earlier rivet might pass through the pommel.
History note: Old India House, Leadenhall, London
Length: 177 mm
Weight: 232 g
by Old India House, Leadenhall, London
1800 CE - 1899 CE
Accession number: TEMP-AA-ARMOURWITHOUTNUMBERS-1
Primary reference Number: 162289
Accession number: O.1i.1904
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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