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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker;
Production Place: Persia; Date(s): 1800 - 1899; Classification(s): weapons, axes (tools); Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912 [TEMP-AA-ARMOURWITHOUTNUMBERS-8]
Description: The steel blade is small, single edged and bearded, with a flat square back. It is bordered with floral bands in spindly gold koftgari including the maker’s inscription. The haft is of spiral-carved dark wood visible only at the centre, with a spiral decorated gilt copper alloy ferrule and terminal, the latter with a spiral carved knop finial. At the top is a low gilt dome and washer . | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Unknown weapons axes (tools) | Temporal: | name=19th century; start=1800; end=1899 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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