RAJASTHAN, INDIA, 18TH CENTURY

细节

A MATCHLOCK CARBINE (TORADAR)
RAJASTHAN, INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
The tapering smoothbore steel sighted barrel extensively overlaid with gold across the full length of the barrel, with faint carved floral pattern, with seven later wire barrel bands, the matchlock decorated en-suite, the wooden stock painted with gold floral motifs and inlaid ivory and mother-of-pearl in floral, vegetal and geometric motifs, with copper alloy plaques with shallow carved floral motifs on each side, illegible sticker on the butt, associated ramrod, two strap mounts
48 1/8in. (122cm.) long

出版

Howard Ricketts and David Sulzberger, Islamic Military Heritage, Nine centuries of Islamic arms and armour, Riyadh, 1991, p.58, no.328

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Islamic Military Heritage, Nine centuries of Islamic arms and armour, Riyadh, 1991

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拍品专文

The matchlock gun, initially introduced to India by Ottoman gunsmiths, developed a distinctive form on the Indian subcontinent, often named ‘toradar’ in secondary literature. It is characterised by a lightweight, straight stock, and the finest examples, as here, are decorated with gold and inlaid with ivory plaques. Although militarily superseded by the flintlock mechanism, matchlock firearms remained a prestigious weapon well into the 19th century. A comparable ‘toradar’ matchlock gun is in the Wallace Collection, London (OA1965; Thom Richardson and Paula Turner (eds.), The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Arms & Armour from Asia, Africa and the Ottoman World, London, 2026, p.88).

This lot has a standard ivory exemption (ref. UHEFN3KG).

RAJASTHAN, INDIA, 18TH CENTURY

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