拍品 160
  • 160

A SWORD (TALWAR) WITH MUGHAL CARVED JADE HILT AND GILT-MOUNTED SCABBARD, INDIA, 17TH CENTURY AND LATER |

估價
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
招標截止

描述

  • sword: 95.5cm. in scabbard: 98cm. 
the single-edged slender watered steel blade and copper cross-guard set with a jade hilt carved with stylised lotus flowers, the cloth covered wood scabbard with finely engraved ensuite chape, lock and suspension bracket

來源

The Nizam of Hyderabad, by repute.

Condition

Overall in good condition. the blade suffers from patination and some oxidisation consistent with age. the fabric of the scabbard is frayed, the copper panels with some erosion, as viewed.
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拍品資料及來源

Only a few recorded examples of jade-hilted swords exist, including an early seventeenth-century talwar from a private Danish collection published in Copenhagen 1982, p.190 no.154 and an early eighteenth-century jewelled and gold inlaid jade-hilted sword that also by repute came from the Hyderabad Treasury (illustrated in Ricketts and Missillier 1988, p.102, no.167). The form of the hilt with the typical rounded pommel and carved floral decoration is more commonly associated with contemporary jade-hilted daggers. The only other recorded sword with a jade pistol-hilt is the sword presented to General Claude Martin in 1786 by the Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula, now in the Heeramaneck Collection (ibid. p.133, no.221).