Sword and Sheath

Titre: En Sword and Sheath; Fr Sabre et fourreau; Fa Shamshir
Type: Weapon
Créateur/ Créatrice: Muhammad Zaman Isfahani (blade maker, as inscribed)
Identifiant: IS.226&A-1964
Format: Steel, gold overlay
Lieu de découverte: Iran (blade, made); Delhi, India (hilt, altered)
Résumé: En The finely watered, curving steel blade is probably Iranian and has an Indian steel hilt overlaid with gold. The inscriptions overlaid in gold within cartouches on the blade include a Persian couplet, a maker's attribution (Muhammad Zaman Isfahani) and the owner's name, Mir Karim Ali Talpur.
Date: Probably first quarter of the 17th century (blade); possibly late 18th century (altered — hilt)
Source: Given by the Right Hon. the Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
Edition: Victoria and Albert Museum, London (South & South East Asia Collection)
Référence: V&A Collections
Langue: Fa
Citation bibliographique: Rawson, P.S., The Indian Sword, London, Herbert Jenkins, 1968, p. 19, figs. 5–6.
Droits: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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