LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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An Indo-Persian Pesh-Kabz
Late 18th/early 19th Century
With watered sharply-pointed curved single-edged blade chiselled with interlaced arabesques and foliage in a shaped panel on each side at the forte and with flowering foliage along the full length of the reinforced back-edge, curved beaked iron hilt chiselled en suite, and walrus-ivory grip-scales of plano-convex section (minor splits)
16in. (42.6cm.)
Late 18th/early 19th Century
With watered sharply-pointed curved single-edged blade chiselled with interlaced arabesques and foliage in a shaped panel on each side at the forte and with flowering foliage along the full length of the reinforced back-edge, curved beaked iron hilt chiselled en suite, and walrus-ivory grip-scales of plano-convex section (minor splits)
16in. (42.6cm.)