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Lot 57*

A South Indian Pata
17th/18th Century

23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A South Indian Pata
17th/18th Century

With replacement broad slightly tapering double-edged blade of European export type (some pitting) cut with three narrow fullers between two man-in-the-moon marks over nearly its entire length on both sides, characteristic steel hilt shaped over the hand and fore-arm and extending as two plates riveted over each side of the forte with foliate terminals, chiselled in low relief overall with designs of flowering foliage inhabited by a makara on each side of the hand, the latter with beaded medial ridge issuing from a triangular panel of foliage on an ovoidal mount, the fore-arm with trelliswork and pronounced upper border chiselled with graduated fluted beadwork, all within borders of running flower-heads, and retaining much of its original silver-gilt overlay (losses), linked iron wrist-mount with bud-shaped terminals, and silvered tubular grip
88 cm. blade

Footnotes

Provenance
The Stanley Knight Collection, Meaford, Ontario, Canada

For another example see Robert Hales, Islamic And Oriental Arms And Armour..., 2013, p.174, fig. 421

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