Lot Essay
A closely related dagger, attributed to Boka Kotorska circa 1800 is published by Robert Elgood in The Arms of Greece and its Balkan Neighbours in the Ottoman Period, London, 2009, cat.71, p.86.
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BOKA KOTORSKA, OTTOMAN MONTENEGRO, CIRCA 1800
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A SILVER-GILT DAGGER
BOKA KOTORSKA, OTTOMAN MONTENEGRO, CIRCA 1800
With straight single-edged blade, the silver repoussé decoration on the hilt consisting of dense repeating floriated scrolls arranged in vertical registers, the ricasso with a foliated half-palmette on either side, the sheath with a central palmette flanked with cusped cartouches with interlocked scrolling tendrils, with gilt bulbous finial
12 ½in. (32.3cm.) long
BOKA KOTORSKA, OTTOMAN MONTENEGRO, CIRCA 1800
With straight single-edged blade, the silver repoussé decoration on the hilt consisting of dense repeating floriated scrolls arranged in vertical registers, the ricasso with a foliated half-palmette on either side, the sheath with a central palmette flanked with cusped cartouches with interlocked scrolling tendrils, with gilt bulbous finial
12 ½in. (32.3cm.) long