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Lot 159

A Luristan bronze sword

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Luristan bronze sword
Circa 11th-9th Century B.C.
The tapering double-edge blade with curved midrib and rectangular guard, the handle of rectangular cross section, decorated with calcite inlay in a geometric design, topped with a crescentic ridged pommel, 38cm long

Footnotes

Provenance:
Private collection, London.
with Faustus Galleries, London, 1976.
Private collection, UK, acquired from the above 25 November 1976; and thence by decent to the present owner.

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