Jakabffy Imre szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 13. (Budapest, 1971)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Report on the Activities of the Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in 1969 and 1970

Fig. 3. Kattari, steel wilh gold inlaid, India 17lh century, purchase. Inventory number: 69.195, Height of dagger: 36,3 cm, height of scabbard: 19,0 cm, Lenght of dagger: 8,3 cm, lenghl of scabbard: 7.0 cm. The dagger is steel throughout, it is of a single edged kaltari type. The shape of ils single edged blade is triangular and there are three linear flutes on it. At their root they show a scroll ornament in gold. The hilt has the same gold ornament as is found on the blade alternated wilh larger scrolls in cartouches. The scabbard is of wood covered with red velvet. It is intact save for some corrosion on the blade. The velvet coaling of the scabbard is torn, incomplete and shabby. V. II.