A Qajar inscribed Dagger (kard) Persia, late 18th/early 19th Century
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A Qajar inscribed Dagger (kard)
Persia, late 18th/early 19th Century
with straight steel blade, the upper section inscribed in gold with invocations to Allah and a verse from the Gulistan of Sa'di, the grip with gripshells of walrus ivory
30 cm.
Estimate:
£3,000 - 4,000
€3,500 - 4,700
US$ 4,700 - 6,300

Footnotes

  • A similar example is illustrated in Islamic Arms and Armour from private Danish Collections, Copenhagen, 1982, no. 76.

Category: Islamic and Oriental Art / Islamic and Indian Art

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