AN INDIAN KARD DAGGER
Mughal work, with polished agate grips with garnet and quartz stones set in silver, the tangbands and bolster elaborately inlaid in gold. The broad, single-edged blade of characteristic form, wrought of actively-patterned Persian black wootz. In its velvet-covered wooden scabbard. Latter 18th century. Overall length 31 cm/ 12.2". Very light rubbing to mounts. Condition I
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Mughal work, with polished agate grips with garnet and quartz stones set in silver, the tangbands and bolster elaborately inlaid in gold. The broad, single-edged blade of characteristic form, wrought of actively-patterned Persian black wootz. In its velvet-covered wooden scabbard. Latter 18th century. Overall length 31 cm/ 12.2". Very light rubbing to mounts. Condition I