A SILVER-DAMASCENED STEEL TULWAR (SWORD)
Northern India, 18th - early 19th century

With a curved single-edged watered steel blade, with two deep ridges running from below the forte to just above the tip, with a flattened spine 2/3 of the overall length, the steel hilt designed with the typical T-shaped forte with bulbous terminals, covered in silver-inlaid decorations including rosette sprays and geometric patterns framed within bands of beaded motif, with a flattened grip convex to the sides, at the top a flat decorative disc with a hemispherical pommel with bulbous finial all covered in concentric geometric decorative bands, 81.5cm long.