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LNS 3909 J a,b

Katar dagger and scabbard (probably not original to the dagger), the jade hilt decorated with quatrefoils of rubies and diamonds, and with small ruby circles along the edges; the upper blade covered on both sides by gold-inlaid jade plaques (of a piece with the knuckle-guard); scabbard fitted with enamelled gold locket and chape, with a pattern of ruby-red quatrefoils on an opaque white ground

LNS 3979 J

Turban ornament
Carved from nephrite jade; inlaid with gold in kundan technique and set with rubies, emeralds and (probably) white sapphires against a yellow coloured foil.

LNS 216 J a,b

Dagger made in the imperial Ottoman workshops, with gold-inlaid jade hilt and scabbard set with rubies, diamonds and emeralds, and finely engraved gold quillons

LNS 660 HS

Gilt silver box with lid comprised of a jewel-framed silver- and emerald-incrusted jade plaque

LNS 181 J

Gold pendant in the form of a bird of prey, all-over decorated with encrusted and painted enamels and set with rock crystal over coloured foils and a single turquoise; pendant pearls (that of the beak missing)

LNS 101 KG

Glass beaker, with two turbanned men seemingly fowling amidst flying geese and vegetation surrounding a body of water

LNS 8 G

Glass bottle with conical neck and widely flaring rim (so-called ‘mallet bottle’ shape), the body with a relief design of counterchanging deltoid compartments, each containing a large palmette

LNS 113 KG

Glass bowl, exterior slant-cut in relief, the walls with a series of large ‘fleshy’ half-palmettes. Filling the bottom, is a winged senmurv-like creature, the head in the form of a palmette

LNS 69 G

Enamelled glass ‘vase’ featuring two Chinese-style phoenixes and a large thuluth inscription exclaiming ‘Glory to our Lord the Sultan, the King, the Learned’

LNS 73 G

Glass huqqa reservoir, transparent middle green, the body decorated with a row of flowering plants reserved on a field of gold

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