A JEWEL-ENCRUSTED GOLD-MOUNTED DAGGER (JAMBIYYA)

YEMEN AND INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A JEWEL-ENCRUSTED GOLD-MOUNTED DAGGER (JAMBIYYA)
YEMEN AND INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
With short double-edged curved watered-steel blade with raised medial ridge, the curved gold hilt decorated with inset diamonds, rubies and emeralds in floral designs and engraved with geometric motifs, reverse with a floral design in repoussé, the wooden sheath with blue velvet cover decorated with embroidered metal-thread and sequinned floral motifs, the chape similarly inlaid with diamonds, rubies and emeralds set in the kundan style in a floral pattern, reverse with gold repoussé decoration, leather strap in later fitted velvet-lined box
13in. (33cm.) long

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The Chaush are a Muslim community of Hadhrami Arab descent found in the Deccani region of India. The name Chaush derives from the Turkish for military personnel, as many of them served in the armies of the Deccani rulers. They also retained very close ties with the Southern Arabian Peninsula, their homeland. It is recorded, that traditionally the Chaush would wear jambiyyas at their waists. This explains the practice of sending such weapons from the Yemen to the Deccan to be decorated in this manner. A number of examples of Indian decorated jambiyyas are known. A similar one, although with a more accentuated curved sheath, which reputedly came from the family of the Nizam of Hyderabad, sold in these Rooms, 5 October 2010, lot 43.