A GEM-SET DAGGER (CHILANUM) India, 18th century With curved watered-steel double-edged blade with raised medial ridge and armour piercing point, the T-shaped rectangular hilt designed as two intertwined sections terminating in four lion's heads, overlaid in gold and inset with a lattice of red and green stones, possibly spinels and emeralds, in alater fitted white velvet-lined wooden sheath,34.2cm high including the sheath.