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An extraordinary tulwar from the property of the Emperor Jahangir (1569 – 1627), first quarter of the 17th Century
Estimate
€ 15.000 - 20.000
Sold
€ 28.125
The price includes buyer's premium
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India Moghul
length 91.5 cm.
Flat, curved, single-edged "laddered" (or Kirk Narduban) blade made of wonderful damask crafted with oblique Muhammad's ladders (a technique much rarer than the traditional one); some areas with pitting. A golden cartouche with the inscription in Arabic "Shehanshah Jahangir Sunh" and date 1012 at the center of the right side. The base of the blade is obliquely engraved with "Bandah e Shah Wiltyat Esfahani", two other cartouches decorated with golden floral motifs and a third cartouche on the opposite side. Beautiful iron hilt finely decorated with yellow-gold inlaid floral inscriptions (some missing parts). Signed "Sarkar Nawab Yunsen Muhammad Khan" under one quillon.
length 91.5 cm.
Flat, curved, single-edged "laddered" (or Kirk Narduban) blade made of wonderful damask crafted with oblique Muhammad's ladders (a technique much rarer than the traditional one); some areas with pitting. A golden cartouche with the inscription in Arabic "Shehanshah Jahangir Sunh" and date 1012 at the center of the right side. The base of the blade is obliquely engraved with "Bandah e Shah Wiltyat Esfahani", two other cartouches decorated with golden floral motifs and a third cartouche on the opposite side. Beautiful iron hilt finely decorated with yellow-gold inlaid floral inscriptions (some missing parts). Signed "Sarkar Nawab Yunsen Muhammad Khan" under one quillon.
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Si tratta di un'asta indipendente da Finarte e come tale gestita interamente a Sarzana da Czerny's. Per oggetti considerati "arma" dalla legge italiana per l'acquisto è necessaThis is an independent auction from Finarte and as such is managed entirely in Sarzana by Czerny's.