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Kora

Sword
early 19th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Nepal (made)

Large, heavy grooved curved single-edged blade with a wide stepped end and disk guards, the blade incised with an 8 petalled lotus flower


Object details

Categories
Arms & Armour
India Museum
Object type
Sword
TitleKora (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Forged steel, incised
Brief description
Sword (kora) with a wide stepped end and disk guards, the blade incised with an 8 petalled lotus flower. Nepal, probably 19th century. Arms.
Physical description
Large, heavy grooved curved single-edged blade with a wide stepped end and disk guards, the blade incised with an 8 petalled lotus flower
Dimensions
  • Taken from egerton length: 29in
  • Minimum of blade. taken from egerton width: 1.5in
  • Maximum of blade. taken from egerton width: 6in
Credit line
Transferred from the India Museum in 1879
Object history
As originally arranged and displayed in Exhibition Road Indian Museum galleries until 1955, with some additions while in storage, case F.703
Production
Transferred from the East India Company Museum to South Kensington Museum in 1879
Associated object
3071A/(IS) (Object)
Bibliographic references
  • Lord Egerton of Tatton, Indian and Oriental Armour, London, 1896, p. 101, Cat. No. 322
  • Rawson, P.S., The Indian Sword, London, Herbert Jenkins, 1968, p.53, fig.28.
  • Egerton, Wilbraham, An illustrated handbook of Indian arms; being a classified and descriptive catalogue of the arms exhibited at the India museum: with an introductory sketch of the military history of India, London, 1880 p.101
Other numbers
  • 322 - Egerton Catalogue Number
  • 8823-'55 - India Museum Slip Book
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
3072(IS)

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Record createdJune 23, 2004
Record URL
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