Arts of the Islamic World & India

Arts of the Islamic World & India

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An Ottoman ebony-hilted dagger, Balkans or Eastern Europe, late 18th or early 19th century

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

the double-edged curved steel blade with two fullers, a reinforced tip and traces of cross-hatching at the forte, the ebony hilt of striated ‘capital-I’ form with central ‘eye’, the wooden scabbard covered with leather moulded to resemble mounts

40cm.

Philippe Missillier Collection no.102C

The carving of the wood of the hilt is unusual: the same striated style is used on the butt of a gun in the Rüstkammer in Dresden made in Bulgaria in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century (inv. no.Y 331; Holger Schuckelt, Die Türkische Cammer, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden, 2010, pp.354-5, no.348).

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