7th Dec, 2022 11:00
Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria
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AN INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), THANJAVUR, 17TH CENTURY
AN INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), THANJAVUR, 17TH CENTURY, with European double-edged blade struck with a brief inscription including 'Pour Rey' with a short fuller on each face, iron hilt comprising langets pierced and chiselled with addorsed fish and exotic birds enclosing the forte, curved pierced oval guard, with a pair of side-bars (repaired) finely pierced and chiselled with a vertical panel of foliage issuant from a heron at the base and with a Yali-head lion and a pair of fish at the top, a central writhen strongly moulded grip-bar and a further contoured bar above and below (pitted throughout), 55.7 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D59. A very similar katar is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (acc.no.36.25.914). See Elgood 2004, p. 157, no. 15.28. Highlight from the Roy Elvis Collection (1944-2022)
Sold for £4,000
AN INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), THANJAVUR, 17TH CENTURY, with European double-edged blade struck with a brief inscription including 'Pour Rey' with a short fuller on each face, iron hilt comprising langets pierced and chiselled with addorsed fish and exotic birds enclosing the forte, curved pierced oval guard, with a pair of side-bars (repaired) finely pierced and chiselled with a vertical panel of foliage issuant from a heron at the base and with a Yali-head lion and a pair of fish at the top, a central writhen strongly moulded grip-bar and a further contoured bar above and below (pitted throughout), 55.7 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D59. A very similar katar is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (acc.no.36.25.914). See Elgood 2004, p. 157, no. 15.28. Highlight from the Roy Elvis Collection (1944-2022)
Auction: Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 7th Dec, 2022
