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Lot 87

An Ottoman jade-hilted watered-steel Dagger
Turkey, 18th Century

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

Sold for £2,500 inc. premium

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An Ottoman jade-hilted watered-steel Dagger
Turkey, 18th Century

the double-edged watered steel blade of slightly curved tapering form, decorated with a series of conjoined palmette motifs to each side, the jade hilt of waisted form, the wood scabbard glad in green velvet with Persian gold-damascened steel mounts decorated with floral and foliate motifs
47 cm. long

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Provenance
Private UK collection formed in the 1940s and 50s and thence by descent.

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