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˜Property from an Important Private Collection A GERMAN DECORATED PARADE AXE, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
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˜Property from an Important Private Collection A GERMAN DECORATED PARADE AXE, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with wedge-shaped iron head pierced with a slipped quatrefoil and a circle, etched on each face with a large shaped panel filled with scrolling tendrils inhabited by armoured figures and a Turk in contemporary dress accompanied by trophies-of-music and trophies-of-hunting (small areas of wear), the base issuant with a reinforcing D-shaped bar, tapering blackened hardwood haft inlaid with scrolling tendrils carrying ball flowers enriched with small pellets and larger mother-of-pearl pellets, all between segmental lines (small losses and repairs) and ivory basal cap engraved with further tendrils and an espagnolette mask 56.0 cm; 22 in overall Provenance The Lord Astor of Hever, sold Sotheby~s, London, 5th May 1983, lot 161
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˜Property from an Important Private Collection A GERMAN DECORATED PARADE AXE, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with wedge-shaped iron head pierced with a slipped quatrefoil and a circle, etched on each face with a large shaped panel filled with scrolling tendrils inhabited by armoured figures and a Turk in contemporary dress accompanied by trophies-of-music and trophies-of-hunting (small areas of wear), the base issuant with a reinforcing D-shaped bar, tapering blackened hardwood haft inlaid with scrolling tendrils carrying ball flowers enriched with small pellets and larger mother-of-pearl pellets, all between segmental lines (small losses and repairs) and ivory basal cap engraved with further tendrils and an espagnolette mask 56.0 cm; 22 in overall Provenance The Lord Astor of Hever, sold Sotheby~s, London, 5th May 1983, lot 161
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