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Lot 107

A Turkish Silver-Gilt Mounted Jambiya
19th Century

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Turkish Silver-Gilt Mounted Jambiya
19th Century

With curved finely watered blade gold-damascened along the waved cutting-edge along both sides (gilding worn), the forte on one side damascened in gold with an Arabic inscription against a ground of foliate and knotted motifs, and on the other with a design of symmetrical arabesques, and waisted hilt of oval section (minor damage and repairs) embossed and chased with flower-heads and trelliswork against a finely punched ground, in original wood-lined scabbard decorated en suite with the hilt, the chape pierced with foliage, and retaining most of its original gilding
29.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

Provenance:
A.E. Christensen Collection

Literature:
Ada Bruhn Hoffmeyer, Gammelt Jern, E.A. Christensens Våbensamling, 1968, cat. no. 273, pp. 244, 245 and 262, fig. 60

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