An enamelled and agate-hilted dagger with bubri decoration and scabbard, possibly from the personal armoury of Tipu Sultan at Seringapatam, India, circa 1790 the slender tapering watered wootz steel blade of peshkabz form with broad back inlaid at the forte with gold bubri motif, the agate hilt of waisted khanjar form with an enamelled gold pommel rendered in the form of a tiger's head, decorated with foliate scrolls and tiger markings reserved on an enamelled blue ground and kundan set with cut diamonds and rubies to the eyes, the scabbard decorated ensuite with tiger hunting antelope amidst trees and a makara and fish within a lake, the chape rendered in the form of a makara, the lock decorated with flowering plants set with rose-cut diamonds. This lot is accompanied by a copy of Tiger of Mysore, The life and death of Tipu Sultan by Denys Forrest, London 1970. 41.5cm.
An enamelled and agate-hilted dagger with bubri decoration and scabbard, possibly from the personal armoury of Tipu Sultan at Seringapatam, India, circa 1790 the slender tapering watered wootz steel blade of peshkabz form with broad back inlaid at the forte with gold bubri motif, the agate hilt of waisted khanjar form with an enamelled gold pommel rendered in the form of a tiger's head, decorated with foliate scrolls and tiger markings reserved on an enamelled blue ground and kundan set with cut diamonds and rubies to the eyes, the scabbard decorated ensuite with tiger hunting antelope amidst trees and a makara and fish within a lake, the chape rendered in the form of a makara, the lock decorated with flowering plants set with rose-cut diamonds. This lot is accompanied by a copy of Tiger of Mysore, The life and death of Tipu Sultan by Denys Forrest, London 1970. 41.5cm.
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