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A Very Rare Ottoman Shaffron
Turkey Or Anatolia, Early 16th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£18,000 - £22,000

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A Very Rare Ottoman Shaffron
Turkey Or Anatolia, Early 16th Century

Formed from a single piece of steel, boxed over each side of the muzzle, flanged around the eyes and ears, and widening across the fore-head, the latter embossed with a pair of broad curved flutes, the lower ones extending along most of the length of the muzzle, the fore-head incised with a shaped cartouche of quatrefoil form enclosing foliage and a panel inscribed 'The Sultan' in thuluth against a ground of arabesques, and incised with the Ottoman arsenal mark (tanğa) of St. Irene beneath, the muzzle incised with three further lobed cartouches each incised with a symmetrical design of interlaced arabesques and palmettes against a finely punched ground, and with a half cartouche at the base, the edges bordered by small holes for a lining and probably for mail (some wear and pitting)
53.2 cm.

Footnotes

For a shaffron of very similar form formerly in the Collection of George Cameron Stone and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. no. 36. 25. 510) see David Alexander, Islamic Arms and Armor In The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015, pp. 128-129, no. 47 (illustrated)

For other related examples in the Furusiyya Art Foundation Collection see Bashir Mohamed, The Arts of the Muslim Knight, 2007, pp. 340-341, nos. 326-327 (illustrated); and in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, David Alexander, The Arts of War, vol. XXI, 1992, pp. 88-89 and 93-94, nos. 41, 44 and 45 (illustrated)

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