Bow

ca. 1855 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Lahore (made)

Horn composite recurved bow, with lacquered and painted floral decoration and a whipped silk bowstring.

Object details

Categories
Arms & Armour
India Museum
Object type
Bow
Materials and techniques
Horn, lacquered and painted with a whipped silk string
Brief description
Horn bow, lacquered and painted with floral arabesques with whipped silk bowstring, Lahore, 19th century
Physical description
Horn composite recurved bow, with lacquered and painted floral decoration and a whipped silk bowstring.
Dimensions
  • Overall. taken from egerton length: 4ft
Marks and inscriptions
  • Transliteration
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.689
Production
Transferred from the India Museum to South Kensington Museum in 1879
Bibliographic references
  • Lord Egerton of Tatton, Indian and Oriental Armour, London, 1896, p. 130, Cat. No. 593
  • 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.130
Other numbers
  • 593 - Egerton Catalogue Number
  • 8594-1855 - India Museum Slip Book
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
3221(IS)

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Record createdJuly 11, 2003
Record URL
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