ISLAMIC, INDIAN ART & JEWELS

A HORN-HILT GOLD DAMASCENED STEEL KILIJ SWORD, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 1716 A.D

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Start price: £280

Estimated price: £300 - £600

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Description

With a broad curved single-edged steel blade with thicker tip, inlaid in gold with a six-pointed star bearing the date 1128, vegetal scrollwork, and a stylised tabarzin axe head with typical crescentic cutting edge, the pistol grip hilt fitted with two carved horn plaques, with an incised white metal T-shaped quillon, the hilt and the quillon possibly a later marriage with the blade.


84cm long