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Lot 13

Two Persian Axes
Qajar, 19th Century

24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Two Persian Axes
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

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