18TH/19TH CENTURY
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Two Indian Elephant Goads (Ankus)
18th/19th Century
The first entirely of steel, the head with leaf-shaped spike and curved hook on one side, the tubular haft composed of slender segmented bars containing small bells, and decorated throughout with gold- and silver-damascening; the second with chiselled iron head (rust patinated) with pierced leaf-shaped spike and pierced slender curved hook (repaired) on one side, on turned ivory haft (cracked, minor damage)
22in. (56.5cm.) and 12in. (32.4cm.) (2)
18th/19th Century
The first entirely of steel, the head with leaf-shaped spike and curved hook on one side, the tubular haft composed of slender segmented bars containing small bells, and decorated throughout with gold- and silver-damascening; the second with chiselled iron head (rust patinated) with pierced leaf-shaped spike and pierced slender curved hook (repaired) on one side, on turned ivory haft (cracked, minor damage)
22in. (56.5cm.) and 12in. (32.4cm.) (2)