An Ottoman gold-damascened miquelet gun
Turkey, 18th Centurythe 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. long 注脚For a similar example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, see Anthony North, Islamic Arms, London, 1985, p. 10, fig. 2.