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A rare Ottoman painted wood quiver with 21 arrows Turkey, 18th Century image 1
A rare Ottoman painted wood quiver with 21 arrows Turkey, 18th Century image 2
Lot 67*

A rare Ottoman painted wood quiver with 21 arrows
Turkey, 18th Century

23 May 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,840 inc. premium

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A rare Ottoman painted wood quiver with 21 arrows
Turkey, 18th Century

of tapering rectangular form with suspension bracket to one side, the interior with pierced baffle for 21 arrows, the exterior with painted gold borders to each side, the arrows with bone tips, feather flights with inscriptions between
65 cm. long

Footnotes

A similar wood quiver from the Dr Charles E. Grayson collection is in the Museum of Anthropology, University of Missouri (no. 1994-0644A). See Mary E. French and Michael J. O'Brien, Traditional Archery from Six Continents: The Charles E. Grayson Collection, Missouri 2007 p. 90.

Inscriptions: including '5 / Nursi' and '7(?) / Khayr al-Din (Hayreddin) Agha'.

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