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Lot 83

An Ottoman gilt-decorated Bow (yai)
Turkey, early 19th Century

6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,750 inc. premium

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An Ottoman gilt-decorated Bow (yai)
Turkey, early 19th Century

the outer face made from a strip of buffalo horn and the inside lacquered and painted in red and black and decorated with gilt scrolls and floral sprays
94 cm. long

Footnotes

For a similar example which is signed and dated see R. Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour, no. 721; and A. Taskin (ed.), Harem: House of the Sultan, exhibition catalogue, Istanbul 2012, no. 170, pp. 288-89. A similar example, with arrows, was sold at Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 10th April 2014, lot 220.

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