*A ROCK CRYSTAL HORSE-HILTED DAGGER  PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION India, late 19th - 20th century  With a sharp double-edged wavy steel blade, the tip slightly raised, on both sides of the forte polylobed cartouches filled with gold-inlaid vegetal bloom and the invocation Ya Ali, the style of the blade reminiscent of Ali's scissor-like Zulfiqar sword, the horse-shaped hilt decorated with bloomed lotus flowers and vegetal motifs, the wooden scabbard clad in embroidered light blue silk, 43cm long including the scabbard.