A DAGGER (JAMDAR)
A DAGGER (JAMDAR)

INDIA, CIRCA 1600

细节
A DAGGER (JAMDAR)
INDIA, CIRCA 1600
With double-edged leaf-shaped blade, the hilt with flattened downturned quillons overlaid with silver sheet chased with flowers, very slight corrosion
15in. (39cm.) long

拍品专文

A dagger of very similar form and decoration was sold in these Rooms 13 October 1998, lot 131. The note to that piece mentioned miniatures from the seventeenth century Mughal Court which depict very similar daggers held or in the waistbands of courtiers.