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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-9]
Description: The steel blade is small, single edged and bearded, with a flat square back. It is decorated with a band of gold koftgari floral ornament around the sides and on the top and bottom of the blade, and chiselled with riders hunting with hawk and sword at either side, and a hawk attacking a dove on the back. The haft is formed of a round steel tube, reeded for most of its length between mouldings, and corroded black. At the bottom is a faceted dome with a faceted oval finial. | 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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