Dimensions
395.00cm high
( 155.51 inches high)
Description
Hunting Knife made by Hayat Haddad for the Governor of Khairpur, Sind
Of Bowie-Knife form. Ebony and Ivory grip, the engraved steel mounts with gold and silver damascening, the blade engraved at the forte and inscribed with gold on the back edge.
Inscribed: "His Highness Mir Ali Khan Sahib Bahadur, The Governor of Khairpur. Made by Hayat Haddad.
His Highness Mir Ali Murad Khan Talpur (born 1815) was the ruler of Khaipur State, an extensive tract of country in Upper Sind that remained independent when the British, following Sir Charles Napir's victory at the battle of Meeanee in 1843, put the country on both sides of the Indus, from Sukkor to the sea under control of the British Government.
Khaipur was one ofthe three ruling Houses of Sind thet had been set up in a division of the realm between the three sons of Mir Sohrab Khan, who in the 1780's had driven the last Kalhora sovereign out of Sind, to establish his own family dynasty.
Another knife, from the same workshop was presented to the Prince of Whales on his visit to India in 1875-6. See Art in Marlborough House, (W.Griggs, London 1898) case J. no. 204
Literature
A.W. Hughes. Gazeeteer of the Province of Sind, (London 1876 )
Status
Sold
