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An unusual ivory-hilted dagger (Peshkabz), North West India, circa 1800
Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 GBP
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Description
the narrow tapering blade with an openwork palmette to the forte and chiselled palmette design along the back heightened by gold koftgari decoration, the steel hilt with fine openwork inscriptions and further koftgari, ivory facings with burnt mottled design
Catalogue Note
inscriptions
A very fine work with nada ‘ali quatrain followed by two words (undeciphered)