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Late-Ottoman ‘muskalık’ (amulet-holder). West-Anatolia / Turkey, ca. 1900.

Posted by Jean-Marie Criel on February 19, 2016 at 12:30am

Silver alloy ‘muskalık’ (amulet-holder) with the representation of a sitting stork (‘leylek’). From western Anatolia, late-Ottoman, c. 1900. In Anatolia, the ‘leylek’ has traditionally a connotation of good luck and also of pilgrimage. Cylindrical box: width 108 mm & Ø 19 mm. Length of chains: 2 x 32cm. (Inv.nr. müç035 - Kavak Costume Collection - Antwerpen/Belgium).

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