A gold koftgari matchlock rifle (torador)
Lahore, circa 1800the watered steel barrel chiseled and decorated to each end in gold overlay with palmette cartouches containing undulating vines and repeat flowerhead motifs, the silver lock plates with three pins ornamented with rosette motifs, the wood stock with two applied silver rosettes to each side, the trigger in the form of a split-palmette, the butt with silver mount
173 cm. long注脚For a similar matchlock from the Tareq Rajab Museum and further discussion on Sikh guns of the Punjab, see Robert Elgood, Firearms from the Islamic World, Kuwait, 1995, pp. 152-153, no. 97. For three further examples with matching applied silver rosette motifs to the stock from the Dalhousie Collection see Sotheby's, Colstoun, 21st-22nd May 1990, lots 67, 70 and 71.