‡ AN INDIAN SWORD (KHANDA), LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH... Lot 9

‡ AN INDIAN SWORD (KHANDA), LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY with straight blade of watered steel, swelling towards a rounded tip, reinforced over the back-edge and at the base with pierced decorative iron panels enriched with gold koftgari, chiselled iron hilt of characteristic form, including figure-of-eight shaped guard, broad knuckle-guard and attenuated pommel, decorated throughout with gold koftgari panels of flowers and border ornament, and the hilt retaining its original padded fabric liner 75.0 cm; 29 ½ in blade Provenance Sotheby's, 29 July 1980, lot 336