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ARMS AND ARMOUR FROM THE COLLECTION OF HOWARD RICKETTS
A FINE SILVER-INLAID AND GILDED SWORD HILT (TALWAR)
PROBABLY HYDERABAD, DECCAN, LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Details
A FINE SILVER-INLAID AND GILDED SWORD HILT (TALWAR)
PROBABLY HYDERABAD, DECCAN, LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The steel hilt of typical ‘talwar’ form, the grip and lower pommel disc finely inlaid with silver in vase-and-flower motifs, the guard and upper pommel disc chiselled with similar floral motifs in relief and gilded, with wrist-strap loop
7 3/8in. (18.7cm.) max. length
PROBABLY HYDERABAD, DECCAN, LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The steel hilt of typical ‘talwar’ form, the grip and lower pommel disc finely inlaid with silver in vase-and-flower motifs, the guard and upper pommel disc chiselled with similar floral motifs in relief and gilded, with wrist-strap loop
7 3/8in. (18.7cm.) max. length
Literature
Howard Ricketts and Philippe Missillier, Splendeur des Armes Orientales, Paris 1988, no. 134
Howard Ricketts and David Sulzberger, Islamic Military Heritage, Nine centuries of Islamic arms and armour, Riyadh, 1991, p. 49, no. 271
Howard Ricketts and David Sulzberger, Islamic Military Heritage, Nine centuries of Islamic arms and armour, Riyadh, 1991, p. 49, no. 271
Exhibited
Splendeur des Armes Orientales, Paris, 1988
Islamic Military Heritage, Nine centuries of Islamic arms and armour, Riyadh, 1991
Islamic Military Heritage, Nine centuries of Islamic arms and armour, Riyadh, 1991
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Phoebe Jowett Smith
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