An Ottoman jade-hilted knife, Turkey, 17th and 19th century

the straight, watered steel blade chiselled with a spiral vine motif, the tip reinforced, the locket chiselled en suite, with thin silver collar, the spinach green jade hilt extensively carved to facilitate gold inlay and gem-setting in a grid-design, all inlay now lost, drilled hole at the pommel, the later wooden scabbard entirely covered in moulded silver, stamped with the tughra of Mahmud II (r.1808-39) by the suspension loop

41cm.