Lot Essay
The silver on this dagger represents an unusually fine example of the decorative metalwork often ascribed to the town of Bhuj, and which is more commonly executed in gilt copper
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LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY KUTCH
Details
A FINE INDIAN PESH-KABZ
Late 18th/early 19th Century, probably Kutch
With tapering watered single-edged blade with pronounced spine, the hilt heavily covered with silver cast and chased in high relief with foliage and flower-heads, all on a punched ground, the sides of the tang of the blade damascened with gold rosettes and chevrons, the pommel set with a large circular cabochon rock crystal, in its original silver-covered velvet-lined scabbard en suite with the hilt, with pierced and chased suspension-loop and bird's head finial
20 1/8in. (51.2cm.)
Late 18th/early 19th Century, probably Kutch
With tapering watered single-edged blade with pronounced spine, the hilt heavily covered with silver cast and chased in high relief with foliage and flower-heads, all on a punched ground, the sides of the tang of the blade damascened with gold rosettes and chevrons, the pommel set with a large circular cabochon rock crystal, in its original silver-covered velvet-lined scabbard en suite with the hilt, with pierced and chased suspension-loop and bird's head finial
20 1/8in. (51.2cm.)
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