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Lot 23

A Chinese Sword (Peidao)
Qing Dynasty, 19th Century

23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Chinese Sword (Peidao)
Qing Dynasty, 19th Century

With bright curved blade double-edged at the point and cut with a series of fullers within incised lines along the back on each side, hilt with brass mounts cast, pierced and chased with foliage inhabited by dragons and comprising disc guard, basal mount and rounded pommel, and wooden grip bound with blue cord, in original wooden scabbard covered in green-stained fishskin with brass mounts en suite with the hilt
66.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a very similar example see Robert Hales, Islamic And Oriental Arms And Armour..., 2013, p. 202, fig. 492

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