拍品专文
A similar Katar is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Robert Elgood, Hindu Arms and Ritual, Arms and Armour from India, 1400-1865, Delft, 2004, cat.15.3, p.146).
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SOUTH INDIA, 2ND HALF 16TH CENTURY
细节
A LONG VIJAYANAGARA PUSH DAGGER (KATAR)
SOUTH INDIA, 2ND HALF 16TH CENTURY
The tapering double-edged blade with central ridge, the typical hilt cast and engraved, with animal's mask finial, together with a 19th century silver-damascened katar and a 19th century Nepalese sword (khanda) with blade engraved with lion passant
28¼in. (72cm.) (3)
SOUTH INDIA, 2ND HALF 16TH CENTURY
The tapering double-edged blade with central ridge, the typical hilt cast and engraved, with animal's mask finial, together with a 19th century silver-damascened katar and a 19th century Nepalese sword (khanda) with blade engraved with lion passant
28¼in. (72cm.) (3)