IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 162555 accession number: TEMP-AA-ARMOURWITHOUTNUMBERS21 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 1 October 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The blade of watered steel (Wootz) is double curved and edged with multiple cusps. The central panel has carved in relief a branching stem terminating in a lotus bud at the forte, and gilt. The hilt is formed of a pale nephrite grip, with jadeite bands carved into lutus buds at either end, a dark green nephrite guard and pommel carved with foliage, the guard fitted with nephrite quillon terminals set in kundan work with a central rock crystal surrounded with six rubies, the pommel with twenty rubies in gold settings round the sides, and on the top three rock crystals surrounded with rubies in gold settings. The scabbard is of wood covered with purple velvet faded on the front to a pale bluish green, with a gilt iron throat shaped for the guard of the dagger, and a small silver gilt chape set with rock crystals in the terminal. Gold thread tape is sewn round the throat and down the centre seam. title: dagger LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/162555 SUBJECTS ------------------- ARM...1912 series DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1899 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1899 DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: mm value: 350 dimension: Weight units: g value: 312