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A DIAMOND-SET AND AGATE-HILTED MUGHAL DAGGER, KHANJAR, 18TH CENTURY
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2025年10月16日 开拍
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North India. The slightly curved steel blade with a double groove framing a central ridge, the hilt composed of reddish banded agate with a rounded pommel set with silver mounts in the form of stylized eyes to each side containing a brilliant-cut diamond, the quillons with a silver mount incised with a band of leafy scrolls issuing blossoms below a diagonally striped band.Provenance: Sotheby's London, 5 October 2011, lot 306, sold for GBP 9,375 or approx. EUR 18,500 (converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing). A private collection in the United Kingdom, acquired from the above. Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and manufacturing irregularities. The silver elements show slight tarnish, and the steel blade has minor rusty dimples with a tiny bend at the tip.Weight: 296 g Dimensions: 36.7 cmBanded agate, a striking variety of chalcedony with alternating light and dark layers, was occasionally used in Mughal India for the carving of small luxury objects, most often personal adornments such as finger rings. One celebrated example in a closely related stone, carnelian, carved from a single piece to form both hoop and bezel and finished with gold inlay, is illustrated by Susan Keene (Treasury of the World: Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals, 2001, p. 39). In the Islamic world, agate in its various forms enjoyed particular prestige, prized for its beauty, durability, and the skill required to work it.At the Mughal court, various types of agate were highly prized for their beauty, symbolic associations, and the technical skill required to work them. They were frequently employed for cameos and other courtly works of art, but hilts of daggers carved from solid agate or carnelian are of exceptional rarity. A small number of these have survived, each of great importance. Among the most celebrated is the agate-hilted khanjar owned by Emperor Shah Jahan, its blade inscribed with his titles and dated AH 1039 / AD 1629 (sold at Bonhams, London, 10 April 2008, lot 271). Another notable example, with a hilt of strikingly figured agate and bearing the cipher of King Charles I of England, was sold at Sotheby's, London, 21 April 2005, lot 92.The present dagger belongs to this rarefied group, its hilt carved from a single piece of lustrous banded agate of deep red colors, a material whose toughness challenges the lapidary's skill, and whose warmth and translucence would have appealed to the Mughal connoisseur's eye. Surviving examples of such daggers demonstrate not only the technical virtuosity of Mughal craftsmen but also the refined taste of the imperial court, where even weapons were conceived as works of art.Literature comparison:Compare a related Persian agate-hilted dagger dated 18th-19th century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 36.25.657.Auction result comparison:Type: RelatedAuction: Sotheby's London, 25 April 2012, lot 588Estimate: GBP 8,000 or approx. EUR 15,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: A Mughal agate-hilted and gem-set dagger, India, 18th/19th CenturyExpert remark: Compare the closely related form. This dagger is similarly carved from agate, albeit of a different color than our carnelian hilt, and features gold inlay with gemstones in place of the diamonds and silver mounts of the present lot.

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