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Lot 40*

A Highly Decorated Indian Sword
The Hilt 19th Century

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Highly Decorated Indian Sword
The Hilt 19th Century

With broad blade double-edged at the slightly recurved clipped-back point and reinforced with gilt cusped plates over each side of the forte, the one along the back extending over two thirds of the blades length, both sides of the blade chiselled in low relief along its entire length with numbered Hindu deities each in a chiselled and gilt foliate oval and against a ground of gilt foliage, the forte on both sides chiselled and gilt with a grid numbered and inscribed in Devanagari script to correspond with each deity, and with a gilt prone tiger either side of the langets on both sides, steel tulwar hilt gold-damascened with symmetrical designs of foliage overall and comprising bluntly-pointed langets, tapering quillons with button terminals, disc-shaped pommel with pierced pointed finial on a domed petalled mount, and flattened swelling grip
87 cm. blade

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