Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt

خنجر بمقبض حيواني

Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt; Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 2011.236.

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A Mughal dagger with an animal-shaped carved hilt; second half of the sixteenth century. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1

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Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns· Islamic lustreware· Kubachi ware· Mahmal

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