Epée Ottomane en acier à poignée en laiton (shamshir), Turquie...
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Epée Ottomane en acier à poignée en laiton (shamshir), Turquie XIXe siècle
An Ottoman brass-hilted steel sword (shamshir), Turkey, 19th Century
the single-edged curved steel blade of tapering form with inscription to the spine near the forte, the brass hilt engraved and decorated in repoussé with foliate interlace, the wood scabbard clad in silver, decorated in repoussé with cartouches filled with geometric designs all on a ground of vegetal interlace with dolphin terminus, maker's stamps to scabbard
102 cm. long
Provenance
Property from a Royal Collection.
Inscriptions: tersane-i amire ma'mulatindandur, 'Manufacture of the Imperial Arsenal.'
For further examples of Ottoman shamshirs, see R. Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour: A Lifetime's Passion, London, 2013, pp. 213-214, cats. 519, 521, 523, 524 & 525.
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PROPERTY FROM A ROYAL COLLECTION
Epée Ottomane en acier à poignée en laiton (shamshir), Turquie XIXe siècle
An Ottoman brass-hilted steel sword (shamshir), Turkey, 19th Century
the single-edged curved steel blade of tapering form with inscription to the spine near the forte, the brass hilt engraved and decorated in repoussé with foliate interlace, the wood scabbard clad in silver, decorated in repoussé with cartouches filled with geometric designs all on a ground of vegetal interlace with dolphin terminus, maker's stamps to scabbard
102 cm. long
Provenance
Property from a Royal Collection.
Inscriptions: tersane-i amire ma'mulatindandur, 'Manufacture of the Imperial Arsenal.'
For further examples of Ottoman shamshirs, see R. Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour: A Lifetime's Passion, London, 2013, pp. 213-214, cats. 519, 521, 523, 524 & 525.
