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A BOKHARA KNIFE
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A BOKHARA KNIFE

IN THE NAME OF MIR GHULAM 'ALI KHAN TALPUR OF SIND, PROBABLY SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY WITH LATER INSCRIPTION

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A BOKHARA KNIFE
IN THE NAME OF MIR GHULAM 'ALI KHAN TALPUR OF SIND, PROBABLY SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY WITH LATER INSCRIPTION
The tapering watered steel single-edged blade with ridge running along the spine and terminating in a small palmette, below this a damascened panel with the words Mir Ghulam 'Ali Sirkar Khan Talpur, the cylindrical walrus-ivory hilt terminating in two slightly everted lobes with medial steel ridge, one side damascened with gold floral motifs, the other with three inscription cartouches containing engraved nasta'liq, a small band of inlaid turquoise panels between the hilt and blade
16in. (40.6cm.) long
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拍品專文

The style of the dagger, especially with the band of turquoises at the base of the hilt, is very typically that of Bokhara daggers of the 19th century (Johannes Kalter and Margareta Pavaloi (eds.), Heirs to the Silk Road, Uzbekistan, London 1997, pl.341, p.183; or, a finer example, Oriental Splendour, exhibition catalogue, Hamburg, 1993, no.137, pp.198-9). The inscription however clearly identifies the owner as Major Sahibzada Mir Ghulam 'Ali Khan Talpur (1891-1941). It is very possible that the dagger, of earlier manufacture, was presented to him and that he inserted his own name at that time, following the tradition of his family with their renowned love of fine weapons.