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Lot 154

A Fine Indian Bhuj
19th Century, Probably Kutch

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Indian Bhuj
19th Century, Probably Kutch

With characteristic bright single-edged blade of flattened diamond section towards the point, decorated on each side with a large silver-gilt panel chased with designs of foliage against a punched ground, and mounted on a gilt-brass elephant's head formed in the round with punched and chased details, its head and eyes set with glass in imitation of rubies (one missing), on tubular gilt-brass haft chased overall with bold designs of foliage against a punched ground, and large gilt-brass foliate finial threaded and opening to reveal a slender bright single-edged knife-blade with silver-damascened grip, in original wooden scabbard covered in red velvet with shaped gilt-copper locket and chape each embossed and chased with flowering foliage on both sides, in fine condition retaining virtually all its original gilding
20 cm. blade, 67 cm. overall

Footnotes

For a similar example see B.N. Goswany and A.L. Dallapiccola, A Place Apart, Painting in Kutch, 1720-1820, 1983, pl. XXIX

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