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LNS 728 HS a,b

Dagger and scabbard, the jade hilt and the scabbard’s locket and chape decorated with floral motifs inlaid with gold and set with rubies, diamonds and emeralds; upper part of the blade decorated with a flowering plant motif in two colours of gold

LNS 3909 J a,b

Katar dagger and scabbard (probably not original to the dagger), the jade hilt decorated with quatrefoils of rubies and diamonds, and with small ruby circles along the edges; the upper blade covered on both sides by gold-inlaid jade plaques (of a piece with the knuckle-guard); scabbard fitted with enamelled gold locket and chape, with a pattern of ruby-red quatrefoils on an opaque white ground

LNS 3979 J

Turban ornament
Carved from nephrite jade; inlaid with gold in kundan technique and set with rubies, emeralds and (probably) white sapphires against a yellow coloured foil.

LNS 216 J a,b

Dagger made in the imperial Ottoman workshops, with gold-inlaid jade hilt and scabbard set with rubies, diamonds and emeralds, and finely engraved gold quillons

LNS 660 HS

Gilt silver box with lid comprised of a jewel-framed silver- and emerald-incrusted jade plaque

LNS 181 J

Gold pendant in the form of a bird of prey, all-over decorated with encrusted and painted enamels and set with rock crystal over coloured foils and a single turquoise; pendant pearls (that of the beak missing)

LNS 2195 J

Sword and hilt, the pommel in the form of a stylised parrot’s head set with rubies and emeralds in an imbrication pattern, the ‘eyes’ set with faceted-conical diamonds surrounded by ruby petals, the ruby ‘beak’ set in a wider expanse of gold which is detailed with half-palmettes; pommel set off from the grip by a channel-set emerald collar, the grip in an elaborate chevron pattern of emeralds and rubies; quillons ending in bud forms; the blade, hatched and gold-overlaid with inept ‘inscriptions’ probably of the 20th century

LNS 3931 J

Pendant set with a large blue sapphire cabochon of rounded pyramidal shape, with suspended ribbed emerald bead of drop shape (modern gold settings)

LNS 16 J

Gold necklace and pendant set with diamonds, with pendant emerald bead, champlevé-enamelled in green on the back of the hinged ‘chain’ elements, and with red, green and blue floral motifs on the back of the pendant

LNS 633 HS

Jade ‘crutch’ (zafar takiya) head, exquisitely carved in the form of two naturalistic haltered blackbuck heads and necks, resting on a lotus leaf, with a ferrule drilled with a large hole at the bottom for fitting onto a staff

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