Topkapi Dagger

Item

Title

Topkapi Dagger

Description

Jeweled dagger from the court of Mahmud I. It has a huge emerald in the hilt.

Creator

Patron: Mahmud I

Temporal Coverage

ca. 1747

Spatial Coverage

Istanbul, Turkey

Type

Image

Date Created

Unknown

Source

Bora Keskiner, Ünver Rüstem, and Tim Stanley, “Armed and Splendorous” in Pearls on a String, ed. Amy S. Landau, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015), 215.

Contributor

Aidan Chapman

Rights

The University of Washington Press

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Topkapi Dagger