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Lot 90

Two Mughal jade-hilted Daggers
North India, 18th/ 19th Century
(2)

6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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Two Mughal jade-hilted Daggers
North India, 18th/ 19th Century

the first with double-edged watered steel blade with raised central spine, the hilt of waisted form and carved with large foliate motifs and floral vines, the end of the pommel with flowerhead, the wood scabbard clad in leather with jade mount to top end carved with floral sprays and suspension loop to one side; the second with single-edged watered steel blade of curving form, the forte of silver-gilt engraved with foliate interlace, the jade hilt carved with floral sprays, the wood scabbard clad in green velvet with repoussé silver mounts to each end
the larger 40.3 cm. long(2)

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Provenance
Private UK collection formed in the 1940s and 50s and thence by descent.

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