A SOUTH INDIAN RAPIER Lot n° 9

A SOUTH INDIAN RAPIER, LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY, with broad tapering blade formed with a long medlial ridge dividing a pair of fullers over the greater part of its length on each face (one small hole and a small dent), iron hilt comprising a pair of long triangular langets engraved 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), 85.8 cm blade¦¦Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C88.¦¦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.¦¦Highlight from the Roy Elvis Collection (1944-2022)¦