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An Ottoman Parcel-Gilt And Nielloed Travelling Cutlery Set
Period Of Mahmud I (1143-68 A.H. Corresponding To 1730-54 A.D.), Dated 1737

Antique Arms and Armour and Modern Sporting Guns
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Ottoman Parcel-Gilt And Nielloed Travelling Cutlery Set
Period Of Mahmud I (1143-68 A.H. Corresponding To 1730-54 A.D.), Dated 1737

Comprising a knife and fork, the former with single-edged blade (extreme tip missing), the latter of three sharp tines, each with silver handle (minor damage) cast and chased with a medial band of foliage and a foliate bird's head pommel, the octagonal lower half alternately punched and nielloed with foliage, in original leather (old repaired) -covered wooden scabbard with deep parcel-gilt silver locket and chape each struck with an indistinct tughra mark on the inside and finely embossed and chased with flowering scrolling foliage on the outside, the former with a cartouche nielloed with the date and a dedicatory inscription in Greek, the inner side with engraved gilt double-headed eagle against a nielloed ground decorated with musicians and two birds each with a serpent in its beak, the latter en suite, the nielloed ground decorated with a figure of St. George slaying the dragon, serpents, human figures, animals and a bird of prey taking a hare, bud-shaped finial, and loop for suspension
11.5 cm. blade, 26.8 cm. overall

Footnotes

This is one of a group of similar examples which have inscriptions often including the owner's name and a date in the first half of the 18th Century. The names are generally Greek which suggests that they were used by the Christian Greek community and were very probably made specifically for them, possibly by Greek silversmiths under Ottoman influence. See Garo Kurkman, Ottoman Silver Marks, Istanbul, 1996, pp. 38-39

For a comparable example see Bonhams, London, Islamic & Indian Art, Part 1, 6 April 2006, lot 193

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.