The exhibition oriental weapons "The Mortal Beauty" of private collections in Russia,

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by ariel

I guess the difference between the "known" Indian and Chinese weapons may be explainable by historical circumstances.

Indian soldiers were known to have been in China accompanying the British there, I have seen Indian weapons that were found in China, who knows if this may have influenced Chinese weapons at all.

[ariel]

Yes, but the earliest British invasion of China was during the Taiping war, in the 19th century.
Chinese ornaments and jade handles are also known to be found on Indian weapons.
It was a two way street, but the main currents were very different.

[Jens Nordlunde]

Eric/estcrh,
The Indians were trading with the Chinese long before the English knew how to reach India.

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde

Eric/estcrh,
The Indians were trading with the Chinese long before the English knew how to reach India.

Your right of course but I do not remember seeing any Chinese weapons that looked to be influenced by Indian weapons, there may be some though, this Chinese sword is different, the pistol grip hilt looks very Indian to me, since it was supposedly Qianlong period which was 18th century I was thinking of more recent encounters between the Chinese and India which may have let to this influence.

[ariel]

Perhaps, as an example of "six degrees of separation", the dragon motive moved through Timurids(?) to Persia and India?