A BHUTANESE SILVER-MOUNTED GARNITURE OF TWO SWORDS AND TWO DAGGERS, 19TH CENTURY. the swords with

A BHUTANESE SILVER-MOUNTED GARNITURE OF TWO SWORDS AND TWO DAGGERS, 19TH CENTURY. the swords with broad single-edged blades, silver hilts of characteristic form including openwork pommels pierced with geometric designs and scrolls, grips bound with plaited wire, in their original wooden scabbards entirely encased in white metal chased with a pattern of geometric designs and scrollwork on the inner face and foliage on the outer, and one sword with a scaly dragon, all enriched with gilding; the daggers with broad single-edged fullered blades, and hilts and scabbards decorated in a similar manner to the swords, together with two contemporary Bhutanese belts with silver mounts cast and chased with similar ornament. the swords: 68cm; 26 3/4in and 64.7cm; 25 1/2in blades. (6). For a sword and scabbard with closely related ornament to the present two swords, described variously as a `Royal sword` and a `Royal Tibetan sword`, see D. J. LaRocca 2006, pp.171-2 cat. no. 73.