A watered steel-hilted dagger (Jambiya), Zand, Persia, 18th century

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Description

the curved double-edged watered-steel blade, with raised medial ridge decorated with chiselled lions to the forte, the I-shaped steel hilt overlaid with gold foliate cartouches enclosing animals in combat

Provenance

The Royal House of Hanover, Schloss Marienburg, Nordstemmen, Germany