An Indian Zagnol, probably 18th century, the long steel blade and pean decorated with a pair of tigers at the forte and surmounted with an elephant, the wooden haft painted in alternate coloured bands, blade 20.3 cm; shaft 56 cm. Provenance: An Important Private Collection of Indo-Persian Weapons, Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 3rd and 4th May 2004, lot 78