AUCTIONS IMPERIAL ARMS & ARMOR NOV 2024
Lot 226:
Description
A rarely-encountered example of Safavid era workmanship, the green-stained elephant grips typically indicate that the owner has made the Haj or Pilgrimage to Mecca, carved with raised central panels terminating in Timurid motifs. The finely-wrought steel pommel, guard and tangband superbly chiseled with Nastaliq verse praising Allah, Muhammad and Ali, together Quranic text. The robust blade of moderate curvature, wrought of superb, actively-grained Persian black wootz, and chiseled with a pair of polygonal cartouches, the upper inscribed, WORK OF ASSAD ALLAH ISFAHANI, the lower inscribed, OWNER ZULFAQAR. In its leather-covered wooden scabbard with steel suspension bands and chape inlaid with gold vinework, the suspension bands with gold medallions borders at the center. Minor wear to blade along the spine, leather with minor losses, mounts with isolated areas of rust. Overall length 89.7cm/ 35.31?. Condition III
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