拍品專文
A very similar axe to the first is illustrated in North, A.: Islamic Arms, London, 1984, pl.40d, p.42, and dated to the first half of the seventeenth century.
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TWO PERSIAN SADDLE AXES
CIRCA 18TH CENTURY
Each head with down-turned curved blade and flat reverse, one carved with a well-worked arabeqsue interlace panel within a reciprocal trefoil border, similar smaller panels flanking the shaft, the reverse flanked by stylised repeated inscriptions, the other axe with a plain central field engraved with a naskh inscription, in a finely engraved border of scrolling leafy vine between silver inlaid stripes, further similar panels above, each shaft renewed, slight rubbing
heads 5 3/8 and 5 5/8in. (13.7 and 14.3cm.) long (2)
CIRCA 18TH CENTURY
Each head with down-turned curved blade and flat reverse, one carved with a well-worked arabeqsue interlace panel within a reciprocal trefoil border, similar smaller panels flanking the shaft, the reverse flanked by stylised repeated inscriptions, the other axe with a plain central field engraved with a naskh inscription, in a finely engraved border of scrolling leafy vine between silver inlaid stripes, further similar panels above, each shaft renewed, slight rubbing
heads 5 3/8 and 5 5/8in. (13.7 and 14.3cm.) long (2)