A Fine Watered Steel Dagger ( Peshkabz ) with Jade ‘Pistol-Grip’ Hilt

The tapering, single-edged straight watered steel blade with broad flattened back, the pale grey-green jade hilt carved with a vegetal pattern and set with rubies and emeralds in gold sockets arranged in floral patterns, the wooden scabbard covered with red velvet and fitted with carved gold mounts on which bezel-set rubies and emeralds are fixed, with thread and metal-thread cord ending in a tassel

Estimate:£25,000

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