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Lot 65*,Y

A Fine Unusually Large Persian Kard And Smaller Companion Knife
Late 18th/Early 19th Century

22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Unusually Large Persian Kard And Smaller Companion Knife
Late 18th/Early 19th Century

The first with finely watered single-edged blade chiselled on each side of the forte with two shaped panels containing fine Qur'anic inscriptions against a gold-encrusted ground, the larger panel on the left side including a date, possibly 1232 A.H. corresponding to 1816 A.D. (?), the back of the blade with three finely chiselled converging lines along its entire length emerging at the forte from two shaped panels encrusted with gold foliage within gold line borders, the hilt and pinched-in basal mount decorated with further Qur'anic inscriptions en suite with the forte, and rounded walrus-ivory grips (one slightly loose and with minor chip), the second with similar blade retaining traces of gold-damascened etched decoration on each side of the forte, one side including an indistinct inscription and date (?), gold-damascened pinched-in basal mount, and walrus-ivory grip of oval section flat along the back, in their original wood-lined black shagreen (minor damage) scabbard bound towards the top with original suspension cord (incomplete) and with pierced silver chape cast and chased with foliage against a punched ground and inhabited by birds on one side
27.5 cm. and 18 cm. blades

Footnotes

For another example with companion kard see Orientalishe Sammlung Henri Moser-Charlottenfels, Berniches Historiche Museum, Bern, 1955, pp. 200-201, pl. XLVIII, no. 209; and for another example of the decoration see ibid, p. 191, pl. XLV, no. 190

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