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A SILVER-GILT CARTRIDGE BOX (CESE)
OTTOMAN BALKANS, 18TH CENTURY
Of rectangular form, the repoussé decoration with lions and birds among foliage, the sides, hinged top and reverse carved with floral arabesques, with three tassles, the reverse with two applied belt loops, unmarked
3 1/8in. (8cm.) (without tassles)

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Lot Essay

Two very similar cartridge boxes are published in Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece and her Balkan Neighbors in the Ottoman Period, 2009, fig.130-132, p.123.

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