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DATED '1691'
細節
A GERMAN (SAXON) MINER'S GUILD CEREMONIAL AXE
DATED '1691'
With pierced iron head of characteristic form, struck on one side with a maker's mark, and fruitwood haft profusely inlaid with engraved staghorn panels and dots, the back-edge with a depiction of Christ on the Cross beneath the inscription 'INRI', a lower panel with crossed pick and hammer bearing the date, 36 in. (91.5 cm.) overall; together with TWO GERMAN OR AUSTRIAN BEARDED AXES, 17TH/18TH CENTURY, each struck with maker's marks and incised with crude decoration, each with approx. 14 in. (35.5 cm.) cutting edge
DATED '1691'
With pierced iron head of characteristic form, struck on one side with a maker's mark, and fruitwood haft profusely inlaid with engraved staghorn panels and dots, the back-edge with a depiction of Christ on the Cross beneath the inscription 'INRI', a lower panel with crossed pick and hammer bearing the date, 36 in. (91.5 cm.) overall; together with TWO GERMAN OR AUSTRIAN BEARDED AXES, 17TH/18TH CENTURY, each struck with maker's marks and incised with crude decoration, each with approx. 14 in. (35.5 cm.) cutting edge
來源
One axe head: Anon. sale, Christie's King Street, 18 July 1973, lot 53.
注意事項
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