λ A QAJAR WALRUS IVORY-HILTED KHANJAR STEEL DAGGER
Qajar Iran, mid-19th century

With a tapering curved double-edged watered steel blade with a flattened wide spine at the top, the ricasso engraved with cusped decorative cartouches featuring floral blossoms and birds on both sides, the shape and decoration of the handle following typical Qajar standards, carved with two courtly banquet scenes featuring possibly an enthroned mythological ruler on both sides surrounded by his attendants and musicians, the figural compositions encased within cusped foliated cartouches and beading bands towards the outer edges, 43cm long.

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