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Lot 51Y
A Persian KardLate 18th/Early 19th Century
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,750 inc. premium
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Late 18th/Early 19th Century
Late 18th/Early 19th Century
With sharply tapering single-edged blade of finely watered wootz steel signed 'The work of Muhammad Rahim' in gold-inlaid nasta'liq' on one side, the back of the blade with three finely chiselled converging lines along its entire length interrupted by three shaped gold-inlaid panels at the forte, the forte on each side with a shaped gold-inlaid panel containing foliage inhabited by two deer attacked by a lion on one side, and on the other with two heron, one attacked by a hawk, steel hilt with punched-in basal mount encrusted with gold foliage en suite inhabited by waterfowl, and with a hare on each side , grip encrusted with running gold foliage inhabited along the top by two lions, two deer and a bird, and rounded walrus-ivory grips, in its wooden scabbard covered in black leather (worn, the top repaired during its working life) with a double row of silver studs around the throat, and later silver chape (terminal missing)
21.8 cm. blade
21.8 cm. blade
Footnotes
For examples of this type see Orientalische Sammlung Henri Moser-Charlottenfels, Bernisches Historiche Museum, Bern, 1955, pp. 182-184, pl. XLIV








