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JAIPUR, NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
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AN ENAMELLED AND GEMSET HANDLE
JAIPUR, NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
The handle terminating in a realistically rendered tiger head, the ears and forehead set with diamonds and the articulated tongue formed of a ruby, the shaft covered with blue enamel and decorated with a flowering gold vine picked out in diamonds, the base of the shaft with diamonds set in green enamel, in velvet-covered fitted box
7½in. (19cm.) long
JAIPUR, NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
The handle terminating in a realistically rendered tiger head, the ears and forehead set with diamonds and the articulated tongue formed of a ruby, the shaft covered with blue enamel and decorated with a flowering gold vine picked out in diamonds, the base of the shaft with diamonds set in green enamel, in velvet-covered fitted box
7½in. (19cm.) long
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