Ending 7th Jan, 2025 12:00
The Christmas Collection, an Online Time Auction
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A NORTH AFRICAN YATAGAN SWORD WITH NIELLO AND SILVER HILT
Algeria, North Africa, ca. 1780 - 1830
A NORTH AFRICAN YATAGAN SWORD WITH NIELLO AND SILVER HILT
Algeria, North Africa, ca. 1780 - 1830
With a wide, curved, single-edged steel blade, engraved just below the forte with an epigraphic cartouche surrounded by stylised vegetal sprays and six-pointed star roundels, and stamped with an undeciphered blacksmith's mark, the forte and hilt covered in silver sheet inlaid with niello decoration comprising five star roundels interspersed amidst double palmettes on each side of the hilt, stylised rosettes and vegetal meanders on the hilt's head, underside and forte, a single line Arabic inscription on the spine, the brown leather-lined wooden scabbard decorated with repoussé silver mounts following the European-inspired Rococo fashion current in the Ottoman court in the 19th century.
78.5cm long including the scabbard
For an analogous example to our lot dating around the same time and with embossed, repoussé silver mounts on the scabbard, please see the Metropolita Museum of Art (MET) collection, inv. no. 36.25.1618a,b.
Estimated at £800 - £1,000
A NORTH AFRICAN YATAGAN SWORD WITH NIELLO AND SILVER HILT
Algeria, North Africa, ca. 1780 - 1830
With a wide, curved, single-edged steel blade, engraved just below the forte with an epigraphic cartouche surrounded by stylised vegetal sprays and six-pointed star roundels, and stamped with an undeciphered blacksmith's mark, the forte and hilt covered in silver sheet inlaid with niello decoration comprising five star roundels interspersed amidst double palmettes on each side of the hilt, stylised rosettes and vegetal meanders on the hilt's head, underside and forte, a single line Arabic inscription on the spine, the brown leather-lined wooden scabbard decorated with repoussé silver mounts following the European-inspired Rococo fashion current in the Ottoman court in the 19th century.
78.5cm long including the scabbard
For an analogous example to our lot dating around the same time and with embossed, repoussé silver mounts on the scabbard, please see the Metropolita Museum of Art (MET) collection, inv. no. 36.25.1618a,b.
Auction: The Christmas Collection, an Online Time Auction, ending 7th Jan, 2025
The first Online Only sale of Azca Auctions has landed.
We will accompany you through the Christmas holidays with some extravagant, quirky, and sparkly lots. The auction is entirely online, and bidding begins on the 11th December and closes on the 7th January 2025.
Collections are taking place from 188 R Hammersmith road, W6 7DJ once the sale closes.
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