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Lot 56

A Highly Decorated Ottoman Kilji
Black Sea Coast, Probably Trabzon, Late 19th Century

17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £6,000 inc. premium

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A Highly Decorated Ottoman Kilji
Black Sea Coast, Probably Trabzon, Late 19th Century

With broad curved watered blade double-edged towards the point in front of the yelman and damascened in gold along the back on one side with the Qur'anic verse Surat al-Ikhlas in thuluth, and with a roundel at the forte containing a couplet in nasta'liq, copper hilt comprising downcurved quillons with shaped langets, and grip of ovoidal section rising to a rounded pommel, profusely set overall with roped ovals and roundels set with fluted red corals (corallium rubrum), cabochon turquoises cut with gilt inscriptions, and imitation turquoise beads (some losses), in original wood-lined scabbard decorated en suite with the hilt along the outside and on the suspension mounts, the former embossed and chased with foliage against a punched ground along the inside, the latter each with a ring for suspension (one missing)
64.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

For other examples see Robert Hales, Islamic And Oriental Arms and Armour..., 2013, p. 209, nos. 507 and 508; and others sold in these Rooms, 28 July 2010, lot 38, 27 November 2013, lot 38, 26 November 2014, lot 116 and 29 April 2015, lot 174

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