An Inscribed Axe Head ( Tabar )

The steel blade with upper flat edge and lower curving edge extending from a cuboid socket, each face of the blade carved with a lobed medallion cartouche extending from the socket and containing inscriptions in Arabic or Persian against a simplified floral ground, the socket with two rectangular cartouches containing further inscriptions against an identical ground, the butt with a square symmatrical stylised floral pattern

Estimate:£800

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