A GEM-SET PUSH DAGGER (KATAR)

RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1880

Details

A GEM-SET PUSH DAGGER (KATAR)
RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1880
The double-edged blade with depressed central panel and armour piercing tip, the gold overlaid hilt with double grip decorated inside and out with regular rosettes set with rubies and diamonds, the interstices and edges set with emeralds, two cross bars widening at centre and similarly inlaid, the chappe with chased leaf motif and terminating in a gemset trefoil palmette, in fitted box
15½in. (39.4cm.) long

Provenance

German private collection since 1970s

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Lot Essay

The floral design on the hilt of this dagger is closely paralleled in an earlier gem-set katar in the Al-Sabah collection dated “circa mid-17th century” (Inv. LNS 116 J; Manuel Keene and Salam Kaoukji, Art from the Islamic Civilization from The Al-Sabah Collection, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2010, no. 271, p.294).

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