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Lot 57*
A South Indian Pata 17th/18th Century
23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £750 inc. premium
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17th/18th Century
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
88 cm. blade
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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








