Enamel hilt - age and place

B.I · 27th March 2006, 04:27 PM

hi jens
am happy to defer to your theories, especially the date on seeing the pommel underside. i know the sword of course, but have a bad memory :-)
hendleys book is great (all of them, but the jeypore enamels that you refer to especially) but like egerton, he must be taken cautiosly. both he and egerton spent much time in india, studying a subject they were both obviously very passionate about, but neither spent much time in the south. also, both studied mainly the arts of the time, of course delving into the past where applicable. the south was never studied properly and only recently have many theories of the past been brough to task.
still, in saying that i am still happy to defer to your opinion, but would like to know where the rajesthan colours information came from (was this hendley?)

27th March 2006, 04:27 PM	#7
B.I Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 485	hi jens am happy to defer to your theories, especially the date on seeing the pommel underside. i know the sword of course, but have a bad memory :-) hendleys book is great (all of them, but the jeypore enamels that you refer to especially) but like egerton, he must be taken cautiosly. both he and egerton spent much time in india, studying a subject they were both obviously very passionate about, but neither spent much time in the south. also, both studied mainly the arts of the time, of course delving into the past where applicable. the south was never studied properly and only recently have many theories of the past been brough to task. still, in saying that i am still happy to defer to your opinion, but would like to know where the rajesthan colours information came from (was this hendley?)