Qajar or Afsharid ?

[Kubur]

From what I see it's 99% Qajar 19th c.

It will be 100% if the whole sword is shown for confirmation.

Maybe with round tip, it'll be Indian or Indo-Persian...

[Battara]

Please show a picture of the whole piece so that you may gain more feedback.

[DavidFriedman]

Here is a full picture of my Persian sword. It had been described as a Qajar Dynasty piece. But some of the floral koftgari on it seems to me to be similar to a Shamshir attributed to the Afsharid era. So if anyone has specific insight on the possibility, I would be most appreciative.

Thanks.

[DavidFriedman]

Hi, it’s taking 8-24 hours to upload my posts for some reason. Here is another picture of the entire Persian sword.

Thanks

[DavidFriedman]

A full length picture. Thanks

[Oliver Pinchot]

It is Qajar, made in the reign of Nasr al-Din Shah (r. 1848-1896.)
He was responsible for the neoclassicism in arms and armor and generally, for Iran's cultural revival.

[Philip]

I wonder what the significance is of the tokhes-shaped or gluteoform tip.

[Kubur]

Originally Posted by Philip

I wonder what the significance is of the tokhes-shaped or gluteoform tip.

Clearly it is not a sex toy...
So probably a baby zulfiqar... It will make more sense in Persian context.

[Philip]

Originally Posted by Kubur

Clearly it is not a sex toy...
So probably a baby zulfiqar... It will make more sense in Persian context.

Well, Iran has quite a tradition of eroticism in the arts. I thought that the poetic expression was Sufistic spiritualism expressed in a physical metaphor, but some years ago a collector showed me a 18th or 19th cent. khanjar, with a nice black wootz blade and an exquisitely carved ivory grip of classic form, inscriptions top and bottom, with a scene that left nothing to the imagination. Neither of us could read the lingo, I still wonder what the script said.