Not on display

Dagger and Sheath

19th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Curved watered steel dagger (khanjar) decorated with gold kuftkari, with a plain watered steel hilt, the sheath tooled black leather with embossed and chased silver mounts

Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.
(Some alternative part names are also shown below)
  • Sheath
  • Dagger
  • Khanjar
Brief description
Curved watered steel dagger (khanjar) decorated with gold kuftkari, with a plain watered steel hilt, the sheath tooled black leather with embossed and chased silver mounts, Iran, 19th century
Physical description
Curved watered steel dagger (khanjar) decorated with gold kuftkari, with a plain watered steel hilt, the sheath tooled black leather with embossed and chased silver mounts
Style
Collection
Accession number
734&A-1889

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Record createdSeptember 26, 2002
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