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Lot 19
An Ottoman JambiyaBlack Sea Coast, Probably Trabzon, Late 19th Century
25 November 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£1,800 - £2,200
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Black Sea Coast, Probably Trabzon, Late 19th Century
Black Sea Coast, Probably Trabzon, Late 19th Century
With curved double-edged blade cut with a central fuller within line borders over each side, the forte on both sides gold-damascened with a panel of Turkish verses between stylised foliage, the waisted hilt and wood-lined scabbard each profusely decorated over the outside with roped ovals and roundels set with fluted red corals (corallium rubrum) and turquoise beads, the inner sides embossed and chased with flowering foliage against punched grounds, the scabbard with foliate suspension loop, and bud-shaped terminal
23 cm. blade
23 cm. blade
Footnotes
For another example see Robert Hales, Islamic And Oriental Arms And Armour..., 2013, p. 93, fig. 214; and for a related kilij formerly in the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection and sold in these Rooms see Eastern Arms & Armour..., 29 April 2015, lot 174








