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18TH CENTURY
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A composite Persian axe (Tabarzin)
18th Century
With heavy slightly downcurved head with crescentic cutting-edge and block-shaped peen, the former chiselled on each side with a design of arabesques and retaining traces of later(?) etched Arabic inscriptions, the latter, including the socket, chiselled with shaped panels containing further designs of arabesques, surmounted by a large monster-head finial formed in the round and pierced and chiselled with arabesques, on twist octagonal iron haft probably adapeted from a gun barrel
30¾in. (78.1cm.)
18th Century
With heavy slightly downcurved head with crescentic cutting-edge and block-shaped peen, the former chiselled on each side with a design of arabesques and retaining traces of later(?) etched Arabic inscriptions, the latter, including the socket, chiselled with shaped panels containing further designs of arabesques, surmounted by a large monster-head finial formed in the round and pierced and chiselled with arabesques, on twist octagonal iron haft probably adapeted from a gun barrel
30¾in. (78.1cm.)