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Provenance: European private collection.
The inscription reads: adile sultan hazretlerine 1241, "For Her Excellence Adile Sultan [AH] 1241[/AD 1825]"
Adile Sultan (1825-1898) was the name of one of the daughters of Sultan Mahmud II, for whom the Adile Sultan Palace was built in 1861, and sister of the Sultans Abdulmecid I and Abdulaziz. She was an Ottoman princess, a renowned female Diwan poet and a philanthropist. A jewelled dagger belonging to her was sold previously in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Works of Art, 4 October 2011, lot 172.