Title: A SILVER BELT FOR WOMEN FROM OTTOMAN PERIOD
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Period: 19th Century
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Condition: Excellent
Item Date: 140
Item ID: 3091
A Beautiful silver belt, Insribed with the imperial signature from an Ottoman Sultan in the 19 th century . 900 karats silver stamped in Ottoman Turkish. The buckle is fligreed with silver . The other parts of the belt are hand made silver matting. Length : 107 cm / 42.12598. This is a antique 19th century Turkish Ottoman belt made of silver. Front and sides richly decorated pattern bands of fine filigree work there is open wire work and adorned at the centre with a large round button and ornamented and it is beautifully patterned.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu%C4%9Fra
A tughra (Ottoman Turkish: طغراء; Ṭuğrā) is a calligraphic seal or signature of an Ottoman sultan that was affixed to all official documents and correspondence. It was also carved on his seal and stamped on the coins minted during his reign.
The tughra was designed at the beginning of the sultan's reign and drawn by the court calligrapher or nişancı on written documents. The first tughra belonged to Orhan I (1284-1359), the second ruler of the Ottoman Empire and it evolved until it reached the classical form in the tughra of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1494-1596).
Tughras served a purpose similar to the cartouche in ancient Egypt or the Royal Cypher of British monarchs. Every Ottoman sultan had his own individual tughra.
