AN OTTOMAN HARDSTONE-MOUNTED DAGGER (JAMBIYA), EARLY 19TH CENTURY, NORTH AFRICAN OR TURKISH with curved double-edged blade cut with a slender central fuller, decorated with gold koftgari scrolls enclosing a brief inscription at the forte on each face, wooden hilt of characteristic form, encased in silver and copper, the inner face chased with foliage and expanded rose heads, the outer face profusely decorated with arrangements of fluted red hardstones and turquoises in raised finely-roped settings, in its original wooden scabbard, decorated en suite with the hilt, the inner face with a small loop for suspension, and the outer with circular arrangements of hardstones 36cm; 14 1/4in Kiligs and daggers of this style have been attributed to both Egypt and Turkey. See A. C. Tirri 2003, p. 67.