6th Dec, 2023 11:00
Arms, Armour & Militaria
15
A FINE SOUTH INDIAN GAUNTLET SWORD (PATA) WITH CARVED WOODEN HILT, 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MYSORE, KARNATAKA
with straight double-edged blade of flattened-diamond section, threaded tang retained by a nut inside the hilt, darkwood, probably ‘tendu’, hilt carved in the round as an elephant’s head with its trunk wrapped around the ferrule, a pair of fluted bosses over the hand with a ‘chain-of-life’ ahead of a lotus flower behind, a further lotus lower and a pronounced monster head on the top of the fluted brim, with early turned hardwood grip bar (upper bar missing) on the inside, 82.0 cm blade
Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C81.
Another example, also from the Elvis collection, was sold in this room 7th December 2022
with straight double-edged blade of flattened-diamond section, threaded tang retained by a nut inside the hilt, darkwood, probably ‘tendu’, hilt carved in the round as an elephant’s head with its trunk wrapped around the ferrule, a pair of fluted bosses over the hand with a ‘chain-of-life’ ahead of a lotus flower behind, a further lotus lower and a pronounced monster head on the top of the fluted brim, with early turned hardwood grip bar (upper bar missing) on the inside, 82.0 cm blade
Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C81.
Another example, also from the Elvis collection, was sold in this room 7th December 2022
Auction: Arms, Armour & Militaria, 6th Dec, 2023
