AN INDIAN KATAR, 18TH CENTURY formed entirely of steel, with tapering blade formed with a recessed panel chiselled with a gilt lotus flower at the forte, characteristic hilt decorated on the principal bars with gold deities and musicians and with flowers on the grip bars (losses, areas of wear), in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with silver chape chased with foliage (the leather worn, the scabbard mouth chipped) 40.5cm; 16 1/8in