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A gold-koftgari steel push dagger (katar) North India, 18th/ 19th Century

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A gold-koftgari steel push dagger (katar) North India, 18th/ 19th Century

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A gold-koftgari steel push dagger (katar)
North India, 18th/ 19th Century
the double-edged steel blade with armour piercing tip, recessed to each side and engraved with hunting and hawking scenes overlaid with gold decoration, the hilt with sidebars and grips decorated in gold-overlay with foliate scrollwork, the grips with central openwork confronting elephants
53.7 cm. long
Footnotes:
Provenance
Private UK collection, formed in the mid 20th Century, and thence by descent.

For an 18th Century katar featuring confronting elephants to the hilt and chiselled decoration to the blade, see Robert Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour: A Lifetime's Passion, London, 2013, p. 72, Cat. 157.

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A gold-koftgari steel push dagger (katar) North India, 18th/ 19th Century

Name: A gold-koftgari steel push dagger (katar) North India, 18th/ 19th Century
SKU: 177308643
Price: 9000 GBP
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