A PARCEL-GILT AXE

INDIA, 19TH CENTURY

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A PARCEL-GILT AXE
INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
The gilt handle delicately decorated with a repeating pattern of floral sprays on lightly dotted ground, the bottom terminal with knop finial with geometric engraving, the steel axe head with applied parcel-gilt silver sheets and engraved with a series of gilt cusped cartouches each containing floral sprays, gilding slightly deteriorated on the axe head, otherwise in good condition
19 in. (48 cm.) long

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Sold Christie's London, 11 October 2005, lot 85.

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An almost identical axe was cataloged as being from 18th century Bikaner (Mughal Silver Magnificence, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, 1987, no. 74, p. 79). There is however nothing similar published in Goetz's catalogue of the Bikaner Collection, although that is certainly not exhaustive. A similar axe was attributed to Kutch in the late 19th century (Lord Egerton of Tatton, A Description of Indian and Oriental Armour, London, 1896, no. 713, p. 137 and pl. XIV).