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Description: | Shamsher or Talwar, with damascened steel (Khorassan) blade. The hilt is without guard and has a flat circular pommel. Inlaid with gold flowers. The scabbard is of red velvet with the end richly inlaid with gold koftgari similar to the hilt. There is a Persian inscription on the blade.
Technique: damascened
Technique: Inlaid
Technique: koftgari
Material: steel
Material: gold
Material: velvet
shamsher or talwar made in Persia, Asia, 1700-1800, (1910.15.27). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.25020 | Go to resource |
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