INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

The form of the hilt is based on earlier Ottoman and Iranian prototypes and not commonly seen on Indian daggers. The style of gem-setting suggests that it was done in India. For an 18th century hilt from Rajasthan, of comparable form and similar floral decoration to the top of the pommel, now in the Nasser D. Khalili collection, see Pedro Moura Carvalho, Gems and Jewels of Mughal India, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Vol. XVIII, London, 2010, no.112, pp.212-213.