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Lot 38

A South Indian Pata
17th/18th Century

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A South Indian Pata
17th/18th Century

With European broad slightly tapering double-edged blade cut with three narrow medial fullers and struck with a bladesmith's mark on each side, steel hilt shaped over the hand and fore-arm, extending as two riveted plates over the forte and each with shaped pierced terminal, decorated overall in the 19th century with silver-damascened demons, and a pair of elephants above a seated figure over each side at the hand, all within borders of running foliage, the outer edges with applied steel cusping, iron wrist-mount with bud-shaped terminals, tubular grip damascened with silver trelliswork, and complete with its padded red silk liner (some wear)
95 cm. blade

Footnotes

For two related examples sold in these Rooms see Eastern Arms & Armour From the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection, 29 April 2015, lots 119 and 120

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