AN OTTOMAN SWORD (KILIG), TURKEY, 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

AN OTTOMAN SWORD (KILIG), TURKEY, 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY with broad curved blade formed with a long fuller chiselled with foliage at each end. double-edged point, some gold koftgari and traces of a cartouche on one side, border-engraved silver hilt including a pair of langets and quillons with faceted bud-shaped terminals, polished horn grip scales (repairs) rising to a rounded pommel, in its original leather-covered scabbard with large silver mounts chased with foliage, the locket and chape each struck with a mark (chape compressed at the base), and with two loops for suspension, 72.3 cm blade