Sword (Kilij) with Scabbard, 19th century
Turkish, Ottoman period (ca. 1299–1923)
Steel, copper, coral, gold, turquoise; L. 35 in. (88.9 cm); L. of blade 30 1/4 in. (76.8 cm); W. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm); W. of blade 2 in. (5 cm); Wt. 5 lb. 8 oz. (2494.76 g)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.2101a, b)
http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/33504
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