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Lot 350

A Rare Turkish Silver-Mounted Dagger
17th Century, Indistinct Silver Tughra Mark

Antique Arms and Armour and Modern Sporting Guns

29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Turkish Silver-Mounted Dagger
17th Century, Indistinct Silver Tughra Mark

With curved double-edged blade of finely watered wootz steel with double central fuller over each side converging towards the point and cut with line border inlaid with silver foliage at the top, figured hardwood grip of waisted octagonal section, the central facets on each side set with silver florets, the shaped silver basal mount engraved with a repeated design and flower-heads, in original wood-lined silver scabbard embossed and chased over the outside with symmetrical entwined arabesques and flower-heads against a finely punched ground, the inner side sparsely decorated en suite and struck with the tughra mark to the left of the suspension loop, locket formed as overlapping drapery engraved with flower-heads against punched grounds and surmounted by a plaited silver band, replacement bud-shaped terminal chased with scrollwork between crossed beadwork borders, and retaining faint traces of gilding
20 cm. blade

Footnotes

Almost certainly captured from the Turks at the time of the relief of the Siege of Vienna in 1683

Cf. a related dagger, Christie's South Kensington, Antique Arms and Armour, 16 July 1997, lot 10

See also Holger Schuckelt, Die Türekische Cammer, Sammlung orientalisher Kunst in der kurfürstlich-sächsischen Rüstkammer, 2010, pp. 260-261, figs. 234 and 235

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