Pusikan / set composed of broadsword with scabbard and Pusikan, Ottoman. 2 Half of the 16th Century. Stem wood, carved, fittings and blow leaves silver wrought, engraved, embossed, gold-plated, set with turquoises and rubies, nephrite hood, cut, inlaid with gold, turquoises and rubies. Length 79.3 cm Weight 1186 g. Y 0345. Armoury. © Dresden State Art Collections 2013

In gratitude for their support in the imperial election and to strengthen the alliance Emperor Ferdinand II sent a magnificently caparisoned horse with three Ottoman weapons, of which a sword has not survived to the present day, as a gift to the Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony. On 14 February 1620 handed over the imperial envoys Duke Heinrich Julius of Saxe-Lauenburg this gift in Torgau. The two remaining weapons (inv Y 0344, Y 0345) are completely covered with gilded silver plate. It is a dense, lofty foliage on stippled background and are evenly distributed over the surface turquoises, rubies and more Nephritplatten inlaid with gold leaves, small turquoises and rubies. The shaft of the Pusikans is engraved.