AN OTTOMAN CORAL-AND TURQUOISE-MOUNTED DAGGER... Lot 21

AN OTTOMAN CORAL-AND TURQUOISE-MOUNTED DAGGER (JAMBIYA), NORTH AFRICA, MID-19TH CENTURY with curved double-edged blade formed with two slender central fullers and decorated with gold koftgari foliage and brief inscriptions on the forte on each face, silver hilt chased with flowers and foliage on the inner face and profusely encrusted with corals and turquoises in raised setting on the outer, in its scabbard decorated en suite, with scaly bud-shaped chape (small losses) 24.7 cm; 9 ¾ in blade Provenance Sotheby's, 16 April May 1987, lot 149 The inscriptions give three of the names of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus as well as that of their dog Qitmir.