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Lot 75*

A South Indian Katar
Vijayanagara, 16th/17th Century

25 July 2012, 10:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A South Indian Katar
Vijayanagara, 16th/17th Century

With long tapering double-edged blade becoming diamond section at the point and cut with converging fullers over most of its length on each side either side of a flat medial ridge, characteristic iron hilt with shaped riveted plate extending over each side of the forte, tapering border engraved side-bars with notched edges, grips each with central spherical feature, and recurved outer hand-guard of triangular form with central ridge, engraved with foliage and rising up to a bud-shaped finial (some wear and rust patination)
37.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

For this and the following two lots see Robert Elgood, Hindu Arms And Ritual ..., 2004, pp. 145-162, pls. 15.1, 3 and 4

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