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Dress Sword

Dated: 1660

Culture: French

Measurements: overall length 93 cm

The sword features a slender, thrusting blade of flattened hexagonal section with a deep groove and an inscription that reads “ANTONI RVIZ”. The guard and pommel are made of iron and decorated with battle scenes. The sides are each decorated with female figures. The spirally grooved grip is wrapped in fine iron wire and braided ferrules.

Cavalry Sword

Dated: 1782

Maker: Johan Friedrich Raab (active in Germany)

Culture: German & British

Medium and techniques: wood, ray skin, silver, foil, leather, gilt, blued steel/burnished, etched

Measurements: overall length 106.87 cm; blade length 88.13 cm

Provenance: acquired from Bland, the sword-cutler

The sword features a burnished steel hilt with a faceted pommel and a spiral wooden grip covered with white rayskin and bound with silver foil. The one-edged blade has two fullers, gilt panel at hilt etched with strapwork and a shell motif, also with monogram, coronet, military trophy and inscriptions.

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Katar Dagger

Dated: 17th century

Geography: Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu

Culture: Indian, Thanjavur; blade, European

Medium: steel

Measurements: L. 21 ¾ in. (55.2 cm); W. 5 in. (12.7 cm); Wt. 2 lbs. 3 oz. (992.2 g)

Provenance: [William Ockelford Oldman, London, before 1935; sold to Stone]; George Cameron Stone, New York (by 1934–d. November 18, 1935; his bequest to MMA

Silver mounted Kris Dagger

Dated: 20th century

Provenance: Bali 

Measurements: overall length 56.7 cm

The dagger has an undulated, double-edged blade of fine pamor, ribbed at the centre, featuring short grooves at the forte and chiselled curls at the base. The silver mendak features red stone cabochons. The dagger has a silver selut and a silver grip shaped as an in the round, crowned demon, enriched with floral decorations.

The scabbard has an ebony wrangka with square borders on a side, and circular borders on the other, the silver pendok being decorated at the front with three bas-relieved mythological characters and fine, floral motifs, everything surmounted by a cusped valve depicting the head of a monster.

The rear surface is enriched with bas-relieved decorations at the edges and smooth and engraved at the centre. The rear surface of the wrangka is also provided with a lozenge-shaped mount featuring bas-relieved floral motifs.