AN OTTOMAN GOLD-DAMASCENED MIQUELET GUN, TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY

Reference: ART300938

The wood stock decorated in natural and green stained bone and circular brass and ebony geometric mosaics, the underside of the butt with a cartouche containing a palmette motif, the steel lock and barrel decorated in gold inlay with vegetal undulating vines and vegetal motifs. 120 cm.

CATALOGUE NOTE for a similar example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, see Anthony North, Islamic Arms, London, 1985, p. 10, fig. 2.