Trois dagues Ottomanes en acier damasquiné or serties de corail...

PROPERTY FROM A ROYAL COLLECTION
Trois dagues Ottomanes en acier damasquiné or serties de corail et turquoise (jambiyyas), Turquie XIXe siècle
Three Ottoman coral and turquoise-set gold damascened steel daggers (jambiyyas), Turkey, 19th Century
each with curving double-edged steel blade, one with central fuller, one of watered-steel, variously decorated in gold overlay with inscriptions and foliate motifs, the hilts and scabbards inlaid with coral (corallium rubrum) and turquoise, the reverses decorated in repoussé
the largest 38 cm. long(3)
Provenance
Property from a Royal Collection.

Inscriptions: to one of the daggers, the names of three of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, 'Marnush, Dabarnush and Shadhanush.

For a comparable example sold at Bonhams, London, see Islamic and Indian Art Including Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art, 24 April 2018, Lot 199.