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MUGHAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
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A FINE INDIAN STABBING DAGGER (KATAR) AND SHEATH
MUGHAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Of typical form with tapering double-edged blade and double grip, the watered steel blade with twinned grooves, a raised cypress tree in between, the entire handle covered with fine gold koftgari floral meander, inset turquoises on grip, the wooden sheath covered with red velvet and overlaid with openwork silver floral meander flanked by two tigers in the round, minor losses of gold and small damages
17in. (45cm.) long overall
MUGHAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Of typical form with tapering double-edged blade and double grip, the watered steel blade with twinned grooves, a raised cypress tree in between, the entire handle covered with fine gold koftgari floral meander, inset turquoises on grip, the wooden sheath covered with red velvet and overlaid with openwork silver floral meander flanked by two tigers in the round, minor losses of gold and small damages
17in. (45cm.) long overall