with tapering slightly hollowed single-edged blade of finely watered wootz steel damascened with gold foliage along the entire length on the back, on both sides at the forte and on the pinched-in basal mount (some old pitting), spinach jade hilt of slight oval section with integral pommel carved and pierced in the round as a ram’s head (beard chipped and eyes missing), in its later textile-covered wooden scabbard with original copper-alloy locket and chape retaining some original gilding and pricked with a trellised pattern of flower-heads, the former with loop for a tassel pierced with arabesques, the latter with fluted bud-shaped terminal, 24.2 cm blade

For a related example see Robert Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour: A Lifetime's Passion, St Peter Port 2013, p. 29, fig. 71.