A FINE ROCK CRYSTAL-HILTED DAGGER AND SCABBARD, INDIA, DECCAN, 17TH CENTURY |

with a single-edged watered-steel blade, the forte finely decorated with koftgari trees and domed buildings, the rock-crystal hilt with a carved geometrical band along the top, the textile-covered wood scabbard with silver lock and chape of foliate form with bud terminal  

In good condition, minor losses to the koftgari decoration, the scabbard probably later, in fragile condition, most of originally velvet missing, light cracks in wood, as viewed.
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A very similar rock crystal hilt is in the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (inv. no.LNS 279 HS; published in S. Kaoukji, Precious Indian Weapons and Other Princely Accoutrements, London, 2017, p.265).