with curved single-edged blade gold-damascened with a calligraphic cartouche on one side at the forte, the latter damascened in silver with flowering foliage along both sides and along the back, characteristic steel hilt of flattened diamond section and comprising waisted langets each with pierced double arabesque terminal, waisted domed quillons, the forward one with integral recurved knuckle-guard pierced with a central slot and with chiselled makara-head terminal, disc-shaped pommel on a dome with rayed border, the former with faceted finial carrying a pierced loop for a tassel, 80.0 cm blade

Provenance

Property of the Marquess of Anglesey, removed from Plas Newydd, Anglesey