Indo-Persian weapons from the Metropolitan Museum collection

[estcrh]

The Metropolitan Museum has a large collection of Indo-Persian weapons, only a few are on display, many are available for viewing online. Finding these weapons in the museum data base is not easy, you have to use many different search terms to see them all. Having them available under one category makes studying them much easier.

I have edited the available images in order to clear them up and to bring out more details resulting in many new images not seen before. This is a fantastic and varied collection which has previously been hidden away from view, some images are in high resolution, click on them for close up views, (katars have a separate gallery).

Some of the weapons are not strictly Indo-Persian but I added them in for various reasons, many of the weapons that George Stone donated to the Met are presented here as well. While the majority of the weapons are knives / daggers there are some firearms, maces, axe, swords etc.

Indo-Persian weapons http://www.pinterest.com/worldantiqu...litan-museum-/

Katars http://www.pinterest.com/worldantiqu...f-art-collect/

[Runjeet Singh]

What an effort! Well done!! It's interesting to see the range of quality - it's not all jewel studded, some appreciation of rare forms and good quality steel work as well.

Runjeet.

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by Akaalarms

What an effort! Well done!! It's interesting to see the range of quality - it's not all jewel studded, some appreciation of rare forms and good quality steel work as well.

Runjeet.

Thanks Runjeet your right, the collection goes from exquisite, jewel encrusted examples to the most ordinary. There are many more items in the collection that have not been photographed, hopefully they will get around to that eventually. I am not sure if the Met has the largest collection of its kind in the world but I do not know of another one that comes close.