Subject: irregular armored cavalryman

Culture: Turco-Iranian

Setting: civil war, Zand-Qajar Persia mid-late 18thc

Object: کارد kārd knife

Wootz Craft *

* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor

"Dagger (Kard) Steel, ivory, gold Iranian, Qajar period, about 1800

This example is so similar to one signed by the maker, Muhammad Nami,

and dated 1799/1800 (Historiches Museum, Bern),

that both can be assumed to come from the same workshop."

* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor

"Dagger (Kard) Steel, bloodstone, gold Iranian, Qajar period, about 1800"

* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery

"Knife (kard) East Persian, 18th century

The hilt of this knife is fashioned from lapis lazuli complemented by silver mounts set with turquoise stones.

The addition of a watered blade demonstrates the skill of the maker." ...