![RARE 17th CENTURY OTTOMAN POWDER MEASURE: Bronze, with cannon breech form butt and octagonal mid section flanked by annular bands. Angled lip with indents at the canted tube face. Sliding plunger with mark graduated stem and fancy swivel term](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982355_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
Ottoman Empire Ottomans, Foot Stools & Poufs
![RARE 17th CENTURY OTTOMAN POWDER MEASURE: Bronze, with cannon breech form butt and octagonal mid section flanked by annular bands. Angled lip with indents at the canted tube face. Sliding plunger with mark graduated stem and fancy swivel term](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982355_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![OTTOMAN TURKISH ROSEWATER BOTTLE: Mid-19th century. 8 1/2" height, black polished ware with squat bun form body and tapered neck inset with white metal bands. Finely carved and modeled in fruit and floral forms and polished before fir](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982411_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![OTTOMAN JAMBIYA: Kurd, 19th century. 8 3/4" length with 5" curved d.e. medially ridged blade showing a little iridescence and may be watered steel as many of these are. One piece brown horn hilt with cylindrical grip](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982380_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
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