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A CORAL AND TURQUOISE INLAID SWORD (KILIJ)
PROBABLY TRABZON, OTTOMAN TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY
The curved single-edged watered-steel blade widening towards the point with double-edged end, the spine with gold overlay, the hilt with rounded pommel and curved quillons, the surface heavily inset with a series of lozenge-shaped corals and smaller round turquoises, one side of the sheath similarly decorated, the other with scrolling repoussé floral vine, the sheath with two belt fittings similarly set with coral and turquoise, minor losses
35¾in. (90.9cm.) long