Yatagan with Scabbard

Anatolian or Balkan

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 379

This type of weapon, with a double-curved blade and a bifurcated pommel, is known as a yatagan. It was commonly used in Anatolia and the Balkans during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the sultan's elite corps, or Janissaries, and was carried in the waistband. This piece, with a blade elaborately decorated in gold and corals set into the handle, was probably made for presentation.

Yatagan with Scabbard, Steel, silver, gold, coral, Anatolian or Balkan

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Yatagan with Scabbard, Steel, silver, gold, coral, Anatolian or Balkan
Yatagan with Scabbard, Steel, silver, gold, coral, Anatolian or Balkan
Yatagan with Scabbard, Steel, silver, gold, coral, Anatolian or Balkan
Yatagan with Scabbard, Steel, silver, gold, coral, Anatolian or Balkan
Yatagan with Scabbard, Steel, silver, gold, coral, Anatolian or Balkan

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