拍品 92
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A FIGHTING AXE, CENTRAL OR EAST EUROPEAN; AND ANOTHER, PERHAPS SCANDINAVIAN
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A FIGHTING AXE, CENTRAL OR EAST EUROPEAN; AND ANOTHER, PERHAPS SCANDINAVIAN

THE FIRST, THE HEAD 16TH CENTURY, THE SECOND, THE HEAD 14TH CENTURY

細節
A FIGHTING AXE, CENTRAL OR EAST EUROPEAN; AND ANOTHER, PERHAPS SCANDINAVIAN
The first, the head 16th Century, the second, the head 14th Century
The first with narrow fluted head formed as a near parallelogram, with straight cutting edge drawn down to a very narrow basal point, and on a modern haft; the second in excavated condition, of 'bearded' form, and struck with a mark on one side (the socket broken out on one side, the haft modern).
The heads 8½in (21.6cm) and 6¼in (16cm) (2)
來源
(The second) Karl Georg Gimbel, Rudolph Lepke, Baden-Baden, May 30-June 3, 1904, lot 674
Henry Griffith Keasbey, American Art Association, New York, November 27-28, 1925, lot 163
注意事項
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

拍品專文

A near identical axe-head is in the Museums fur Deutsche Geschichte, Berlin (59.3493).
See Heinrich Müller, Europäische Hieb-und Stichwaffen, 1981, no.293.