Splendour: The Philippe Missillier Collection of Islamic & Indian Arms and Armour

Splendour: The Philippe Missillier Collection of Islamic & Indian Arms and Armour

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A Rare Mughal Steel Fakir's Crutch with Stiletto Dagger, India, 17th Century

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Auction Closed

April 29, 12:32 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

the plain steel crutch elegantly shaped into a figure of eight culminating in a lotus bud, the ends of the plain haft decorated with carved leaves, the pommel screwed into the haft and set with a hidden fullered stiletto blade, the pommel cap with unusual wheeled mechanism

62.5cm.

Philippe Missillier Collection no.182C

H. Ricketts and P. Missillier, Splendeur des Armes Orientales, Paris: Acte-Expo, 1988, p.83, no.133 (not illustrated)

Two further stilettos with hilts of a sinuous snake-like form terminating in a flower-bud are in the Furusiyya Collection, where they are dated to the seventeenth century (Bashir Mohamed, The Arts of the Muslim Knight. The Furusiyya Art Foundation Collection, Skira, 2008, pp.204-5, nos.194 and 195). One is missing its blade and scabbard and the other is missing the scabbard. This example retains its blade and scabbard.