Sheath for a Dagger

Image credit: The Khalili Collections

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The surface is worked with an arabesque of leaves, tendrils and chinoiserie lotuses, all on a punched ground. Along one edge is a frieze of animals, birds and a wyvern-like dragon which is about to catch a fleeing man by the foot, and a double-bodied snake-dragon. The tip is shaped like a dragon's head holding a coral bead in its jaws. Such motifs continue the repertoire of mid-sixteenth-century Ottoman goldsmiths, but their treatment here is more characteristic of the early seventeenth century.

The Khalili Collections

London

Title

Sheath for a Dagger

Date

late 16th C or early 17th C

Medium

wood, covered with silver sheet worked in repoussé with chased & engraved detail, set with a coral

Accession number

891

Work type

Sculpture

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The Khalili Collections

London, Greater London England

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