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An Unusual Indian Pesh-Kabz With Calligraphic Hilt
6 April 2006, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,480 inc. premium
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With distinctly watered sharply tapering blade reinforced along the back edge, hilt decorated overall with damascened gold foliage and finely pierced to form the word Nasir (for Helper, one of the names of God), in wooden scabbard covered in maroon velvet with steel locket and chape gold-damascened en suite with the hilt, the former with ring for suspension
36.7 cm. blade
36.7 cm. blade
Footnotes
Cf. David Alexander, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, The Arts of War,, p. 190, no. 124 (illustrated); and a very similar example sold in these Rooms 24 November 1999, lot 68








