Auctions Imperial 2017 May Arms & Armor
Lot 327:
Description
Qajar Dynasty, the steel hilt with fully-modeled parrot’s head pommel, the grip chiseled overall with flowering vines and a central calligraphic panel, the guard with a falcon felling a bird, inlaid in gold throughout. The exceptional blade is archaic in design; both long and broad, wrought of superb Persian wootz displaying a dramatic pattern throughout, and chiseled at the forte with panels of flowering vines, with inlaid borders. Wrought with a set of interrupted fullers for its entire length on either side, each terminating in a bead, separated by a quatrefoil surrounded by inlaid springs and outlined with a narrow groove, with inlaid flowers in the interstices at the spine. The long back edge and cutting edge terminating in a thickened armor-piercing tip and signed in a pair of inlaid cartouches at the right forte, containing the name and title of Shah Abbas I of Iran (e. 1588-1629,) ABBAS SHAH BANDE-YE VILAYET together with the maker’s name, AMAL-E ASSAD ALLAH (Work of Assad Allah.) First half of the 19th century, blade possibly earlier. Overall length 94 cm. Condition I
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