ID 1033149
Lot 101 | A GEM-SET AND ENAMELLED SWORD (TULWAR) AND SCABBARD FROM THE ARMOURY OF TIPU SULTAN
Estimate value
£ 80 000 – 120 000
DECCAN OR SOUTH INDIA, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
The curved fullered steel blade double-edged at the tip, one side struck with European maker's mark, the white enamel hilt set with gemstones arranged in fours in gilt mounts, larger cabochon rubies on the quillons, the disc pommel similarly decorated, the wooden scabbard clad entirely in brown tooled leather
35 7/8in. (91.1cm.) long
Provenance
Personal armoury of Tipu Sultan of Mysore
Charles, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (d. 1805), by 1799,
thence by descent
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