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29 septembre 2012

A Mughal jade-hilted dagger, India, 18th Century

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A Mughal jade-hilted dagger, India, 18th Century - Photo Sotheby's

the curved tapering watered steel blade of peshkabz type with flattened back edge chiselled with palmette and raised lines, the pistol-grip hilt of pale-green jade carved with floral motifs across the quillons and rounded pommel which is set with a single gold flowerhead to one face, the second flowerhead on the reverse missing; 38.5cm. Estimation: 7,000 - 10,000 GBP

Sotheby's. Arts of the Islamic World. London | 03 oct. 2012 www.sothebys.com 

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