A Rare Ottoman Tombak Flanged Mace, Turkey, 17th or 18th Century
Auction Closed
April 29, 12:32 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
the steel mace fully mercury gilded, the head with six flanges each carved with a boteh-pattern border, the haft in two parts
50cm.
Philippe Missillier Collection no.79C
David A. Sulzberger, Islamic Military Heritage: Nine Centuries of Islamic Arms and Armour, Riyadh, 1991, p.31, no.149
A related gilt-metal mace is in the Palace Museum in Wilanów, Poland (inv. no.509, Selmin Kangal, War and Peace: Ottoman-Polish Relations in the 15th-19th centuries, Istanbul, 1999, no.74, pp.174-5). A comparable flanged mace was sold in these rooms, 8 October 2008, lot 246.
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