Live Auction 2726Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
A MUGHAL WHITE JADE HORSE HEAD-HILTED DAGGER, KHANJAR
Lot 1709PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF FONG CHOW

A MUGHAL WHITE JADE HORSE HEAD-HILTED DAGGER, KHANJAR

NORTH INDIA, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

Closed20 September 2013

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A MUGHAL WHITE JADE HORSE HEAD-HILTED DAGGER, KHANJAR
NORTH INDIA, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
The finely polished white jade hilt is well carved as a horse head with flared nostrils and the mane swept to one side above subtle finger grooves on the front of the neck. The tapering, watered steel blade has a pronounced median ridge on each side.
11 in. (28 cm.) long

Fong Chow (1923-2012) Collection, New York.

Specialist note

Compare the Mughal dagger dated to the eighteenth century and ascribed to North India, which has a similar horse head at the end of the jade handle, and a similar curved, rather than straight, watered steel blade sold at Christie's London, 7 April 2011, lot 194.