REGARDING THE TYPOLOGY OF HILTS OF CHINESE EDGED WEAPONS - THE “PISTOL” GRIP AS THE DATING CHARACTERISTICS
Abstract
The most part of Chinese edged weapons traditionally have the hilt which is fixed by the riveting of the end of the tang on the end of the pommel. Some traditional hilts have wooden grips fixed to the tang with rivets. Practically all these hilts have the windings of textile cord or band. They are hilts traditional for China during thousands of years. However, as it is described in special literature, among Chinese edged weapons there are samples with so called “pistol” grips. These types are not traditional for China and could be used for the reliable dating characteristic for pieces of Chinese weapons in the museum and private collections. Judging by the material of the “pistol” grips - nephrite and wood - one is able to distinguish 2 types of handles dating by the 2nd half of 18th century and the 1sthalf of 19th century respectively. The 1st type could be connected reliably with the penetration of elements of Mughal military culture into the Qing Empire via Eastern Turkestan in the second half of the 18th century; the 2nd type could be connected presumably with the influence of the European naval edged weapons (beginning from Dutch and Portuguese ones) to the weapons of nations of South-East Asia and further - to the edged weapons of China. The extreme rarity of the hilts of the 2nd type demands the continuation of researches in this direction to find out the genesis of these hilts, the degree of popularity, the area and period of existing.
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