Arms & Armour
Catalog Information: 218 lots | 170 with images
Date: 2003
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: A RARE INDIAN TALWAR FOR A CHILD,18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
DETAILED DESCRIPTIONwith slightly curved blade double-edged towards the point, iron hilt of characteristic form decorated with silver koftgari flowers and foliage, in its original wooden scabbard covered with green stained vellum (small losses), appl [...more]
Lot 2: f - AN INDIAN PATA,17TH CENTURY
DETAILED DESCRIPTIONwith European blade, and iron 'gauntlet' hilt chiselled with flowers and foliage; an Indian Talwar of exceptional size, 19th Century, with very broad blade chiselled with figures and foliage and enriched with copper inlay, applied [...more]
Lot 3: AN INDIAN PATA,17TH CENTURY
DETAILED DESCRIPTIONwith straight blade double-edged towards the point, and gauntlet hilt pierced and chiselled with panels of scrolling flowers and foliage (two small cracks, and heavily patinated throughout)
Lot 4: f - AN INDIAN TALWAR,18TH CENTURY
DETAILED DESCRIPTIONwith 17th Century European blade and iron hilt of characteristic form damascened over its entire surface with conventional leaf ornament within linear frames; another, 18th/early 19th Century, with exceptionally broad curved blade [...more]
Lot 5: f - AN INDIAN SHORTSWORD,LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
DETAILED DESCRIPTIONwith straight double-edged blade swelling around the base, iron hilt with lotus bud pommel, and the forte and hilt decorated with gold koftgari flowers and foliage; an Indian Talwar, early 18th Century, with earlier European blade [...more]
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