Arts of the Islamic World & India

Arts of the Islamic World & India

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A hooded punch-dagger (katar), probably Vijayanagara, South India, 16th century

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

the long, strongly tapering blade with multiple grooves and reinforced tip attached to the steel hilt with four rivets, the hilt with typical steel hood reinforced on both edges with riveted steel, culminating in an upturned sculpted monster head, the double grip of typical ball form, the hilt carved with vegetal motifs both on the interior and exterior, excluding the hood, the full exterior of the hilt overlaid with dense floral and vegetal motifs 

64cm.

Philippe Missillier Collection no.103C

H. Ricketts and P. Missillier, Splendeur des Armes Orientales, Paris: Acte-Expo, 1988, p.80, no.127.

The use of gold overlay on a hooded punch-dagger is unusual, with the majority of such daggers silvered or simply left plain. Another example was formerly in the collection of George Cameron Stone, and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no.36.25.950). A hooded gold-overlaid punch dagger attributed to early seventeenth-century Vijayanagara was sold at Christie’s, London, 6 October 2011, lot 439. 

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