INDIA, 19TH CENTURY

Katars with three blades are rare. A related example, although not damascened like ours, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Robert Elgood, Hindu Arms and Ritual, Delft, 2004, no.15.34, p.160). Another was sold as part of the Stuart Cary Welch collection, Sotheby’s, 6 April 2011, lot 137.