An Indian ivory and enamelled sword and scabbard, probably Lucknow, 18th century

the curved watered-steel blade with silver hilt and marine ivory facings, decorated with enamels with roundels enclosing paired gazelles and birds, the pommel and quillons rendered in the form of a makara-head and set with gemstones, velvet-covered wood scabbard with silver suspension fitting and chape with further enamelled roundels of birds and gazelles

A comparable shamsir sold in these rooms, 27 April 2005, lot 156.  Another is in a Danish private collection (Copenhagen 1982, p.192).