A Persian axe (Tabarzin), and an Indian mace
A Persian axe (Tabarzin), and an Indian mace

THE FIRST LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

细节
A Persian axe (Tabarzin), and an Indian mace
The first late 18th/early 19th Century
The first with small head with crescentic cutting-edge and block-shaped peen damascened overall in gold with scrolling arabesques, foliage and panels containing religious invocations in Thuluth script, on spirally grooved leather-covered wooden haft with deep silver mount at the top and bottom each embossed with spiral bands of scrolling foliage; the last with globular head set with spikes of diamond section and roughly damascened with silver foliage overall, on tubular iron haft sparsely damascened en suite
25¾in. (65.4cm.) and 30¾in. (78.1cm.) (2)