A ROCK CRYSTAL-HILTED DAGGER (KHANJAR)
North India, late 18th - 19th century

With a sharp single-edged watered steel blade, with a thick medial ridge, the gold-inlaid rain guard decorated on both sides with rosettes amidst vegetal tendrils and lush foliage, the rock crystal handle encrusted with four small cabochon-cut carnelian beads, the scabbard lined with orange velvet, the two fitted mounts decorated in the same style of the rain guard, 37.5cm long including the scabbard.