with broad straight double-edged European blade formed with a short slender central fuller on each face, robust iron gauntlet hilt extending over the forte with a pair of shaped langets chiselled over their surface with a symmetrical design of flowers and foliage and with lotus flower terminals, a pair of low domed moulded panels over the hand finely pierced with a trellis design of small flowerheads, a panel of Chrysanthemum flowers and foliage inhabited by a fish on each side beneath, flaring over the fore-arm and pierced and chiselled en suite with an elliptical beadwork moulding in the middle, strongly moulded border, the interior with a single grip-bar and arm bar chiselled with foliage and with recurved bud-shaped finials, 87.2 cm blade

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C16.