拍品 271
271
A LARGE GOLD-DAMASCENED CEREMONIAL DOUBLE-HEADED AXE (SAR-E TABAR)
A LARGE GOLD-DAMASCENED CEREMONIAL DOUBLE-HEADED AXE (SAR-E TABAR)

POSSIBLY LATE SAFAVID IRAN, 18TH CENTURY OR LATER

細節
A LARGE GOLD-DAMASCENED CEREMONIAL DOUBLE-HEADED AXE (SAR-E TABAR)
POSSIBLY LATE SAFAVID IRAN, 18TH CENTURY OR LATER
The blades and shaft deeply carved with floral motifs outlined with gold-damascening, the main blade with calligraphic cartouches reading ''Amal 'Abdullah' and 'Sultan bin Sultan Shah 'Abbas al-Safawi
22¾in. (58cm.) high

登入
瀏覽狀況報告

拍品專文

A very similar double-headed axe is in the Military Museum of Tehran. It is published by Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani in Arms and Armor from Iran, The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period (Tubingen, 2006, cat.350) and attributed to the late Safavid era.