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Lot 42

A Persian All-Metal Jambiya
Qajar, 19th Century

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,530 inc. premium

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A Persian All-Metal Jambiya
Qajar, 19th Century

With curved sharply pointed double-edged blade cut with two fullers over most of its length on both sides forming a medial ridge, the forte chiselled on each side with foliage inhabited by a tiger attacking a bull, waisted hilt of oval section decorated on both sides with shaped panels encrusted with chased silver foliage within gold-damascened line borders, all against a ground of chiselled flowering foliage inhabited by birds at the top and bottom, in original scabbard profusely decorated en suite along both sides
32.5 cm. blade

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Provenance
Christie's London, Antique Arms and Armour, 16 December 1999, lot 6 (part)

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