A Mughal watered-steel-hilted sword (talwar), India, late 17th/ early 18th century

the curved watered-steel blade with a watered-steel hilt of talwar form with baluster grip, broad crossguard, elongated forte and disc pommel, finely decorated with applied gold decoration using the zarneshan technique along the edges of the forte and around the pommel and quillons with serrated leaves, cypress trees and flowerheads