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Lot 98*

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

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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

With tapering double-edged blade becoming diamond section at the point and cut with converging fullers over most of its length on each side, characteristic iron hilt with shaped riveted plate over each side of the forte with two pairs of decorative piercings and gold-damascened at a later date with flowers and foliage, shaped side-bars and recurved outer hand-guard of triangular form all cut with central flutes and gold-damascened en suite, the former each with bud-shaped finials, the latter arcaded beneath (reinforcing strip incomplete) and rising to a monster-head terminal, a riveted retaining strap beneath connected to each side-bar, and grips each with central spherical feature
33.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

See Robert Elgood, Hindu Arms And Ritual..., 2004, pp.145-162, pls. 15.1, 3 and 4

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