A Persian All-Metal Jambiya, Qajar, 19th Century

With curved sharply pointed double-edged blade cut with two fullers over most of its length on both sides forming a medial ridge, the forte chiselled on each side with foliage inhabited by a tiger attacking a bull, waisted hilt of oval section decorated on both sides with shaped panels encrusted with chased silver foliage within gold-damascened line borders, all against a ground of chiselled flowering foliage inhabited by birds at the top and bottom, in original scabbard profusely decorated en suite along both sides
32.5 cm. blade

Provenance
Christie's London, Antique Arms and Armour, 16 December 1999, lot 6 (part)