A Mughal steel-hilted dagger with scabbard, India, circa 1800

the curved watered-steel blade with central ridge and swollen tip, the steel hilt with scroll quillons and pommel rendered in the form of a parrot's head, decorated throughout with koftgari floral patterns, the eyes and quillons set with red stones, the velvet-covered wood scabbard with foliate steel chape and lock with koftgari decoration