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Two Persian Axes Qajar, 19th Century
24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,024 inc. premium
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Two Persian Axes
Qajar, 19th Century
Qajar, 19th Century
Entirely of steel, each with crescentic blade etched in imitation of wootz steel and deeply etched on both sides with cartouches containing lightly gold-damascened courtly figures in contemporary costume, the figures on one blade set in a landscape, sockets and waisted block-shaped peens en suite, one with calligraphy, each on a faceted tubular steel haft in five stages of which two are spirally twist, rounded terminals, and each surmounted by a spherical finial (2)
15.5 cm. heads
15.5 cm. heads








