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ARMS AND ARMOUR FROM THE COLLECTION OF HOWARD RICKETTS
A VERY FINE CAUCASIAN DAGGER (KINJAL) AND SCABBARD
PROBABLY DAGHESTAN, CAUCASUS, 19TH CENTURY
Details
A VERY FINE CAUCASIAN DAGGER (KINJAL) AND SCABBARD
PROBABLY DAGHESTAN, CAUCASUS, 19TH CENTURY
The heavy, straight, doubled-edged russet steel blade with characteristic off-centre fuller richly inlaid with gold across the full length of the blade, set in a walrus ivory hilt and fastened with two steel studs inlaid with flower motifs of worked gold, the leather-covered wooden scabbard with strap mount decorated en-suite to the hilt and space for an accompanying pocket knife, missing
22 ¼in. (56.5 cm.) long
PROBABLY DAGHESTAN, CAUCASUS, 19TH CENTURY
The heavy, straight, doubled-edged russet steel blade with characteristic off-centre fuller richly inlaid with gold across the full length of the blade, set in a walrus ivory hilt and fastened with two steel studs inlaid with flower motifs of worked gold, the leather-covered wooden scabbard with strap mount decorated en-suite to the hilt and space for an accompanying pocket knife, missing
22 ¼in. (56.5 cm.) long
Provenance
Anastassias, 35 Place Maubert, Paris, from whom acquired by Charles Gillot before October 1900 (200 francs)
Ancienne Collection Charles Gillot (1853-1903), Christie’s Paris, 5 March 2008, lot 89
Ancienne Collection Charles Gillot (1853-1903), Christie’s Paris, 5 March 2008, lot 89
Engraved
Along the fuller, in three cartouches, Qur’an 61:13 (in part) and an exhortation to Imam ‘Ali in the form of a Persian couplet, zamana bar sar-i jang ast ya ‘ali madadi madad zi ghayr-i tu nang ast ya ‘ali madadi, ‘The world is on the eve of war, O ‘Ali, be my aid! Aid other than yours is shameful, O ‘Ali be my aid!’
Towards the hilt, a maker’s mark, chūn (?)
At the hilt, ya ‘ali adrikni, ‘O ‘Ali! Help me!’
Towards the hilt, a maker’s mark, chūn (?)
At the hilt, ya ‘ali adrikni, ‘O ‘Ali! Help me!’
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Phoebe Jowett Smith
Sale Coordinator & Cataloguer