A MUGHAL-REVIVAL ROCK CRYSTAL-HILTED DAGGER
Northern India, late 19th - 20th century

A MUGHAL-REVIVAL ROCK CRYSTAL-HILTED DAGGER
Northern India, late 19th - 20th century

With a straight double-edged watered steel blade with a thick medial ridge on both sides, the forte enhanced with gold-damascened cusped spandrels filled with vegetal meanders, the rock crystal hilt carved in an unusual shape reminiscent of an hourglass, featuring a central spherical element carved with diagonal bands and a melon-shaped pommel at the top, 39.5cm long.

For a comparable example, please see the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, New York (inv. no. 36.25.669).

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Dimensions: 39.5cm long