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NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
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A MUGHAL INSET JADE HILTED DAGGER
NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
The tapering very slightly curved double-edged watered steel blade with medial ridge, the pale green jade pistol-hilt grip inset with red hardstone rosettes linked by gold feathery tendrils, the later Ottoman blue felt covered wooden sheath with silver mounts engraved with bands of meandering flowering vine, between minor bands of inset red hardstones alternating with turquoises and naskh inscription stripes
Overall 17½in. (44.6cm.) long
NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
The tapering very slightly curved double-edged watered steel blade with medial ridge, the pale green jade pistol-hilt grip inset with red hardstone rosettes linked by gold feathery tendrils, the later Ottoman blue felt covered wooden sheath with silver mounts engraved with bands of meandering flowering vine, between minor bands of inset red hardstones alternating with turquoises and naskh inscription stripes
Overall 17½in. (44.6cm.) long