Description
A SOUTH INDIAN RAPIER, LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY with broad tapering blade formed with a long medial ridge and reinforced point (small cracks), iron hilt comprising a pair of long triangular langets chiselled with foliage, broad curved elliptical guard, pommel en suite with the guard, rising up to a faceted button and fitted with a chiselled foliate plate on each side, and small moulded integral grip (areas of pitting), 102.4 cm Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C19 A sword of near identical form is preserved at Junagarh Fort, Bikaner and another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. no. 36.25.1582). See Elgood 2004, p. 88, figs. 8.30 and 8.31.
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A SOUTH INDIAN RAPIER, LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY with broad tapering blade formed with a long medial ridge and reinforced point (small cracks), iron hilt comprising a pair of long triangular langets chiselled with foliage, broad curved elliptical guard, pommel en suite with the guard, rising up to a faceted button and fitted with a chiselled foliate plate on each side, and small moulded integral grip (areas of pitting), 102.4 cm Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C19 A sword of near identical form is preserved at Junagarh Fort, Bikaner and another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. no. 36.25.1582). See Elgood 2004, p. 88, figs. 8.30 and 8.31.
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