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LOT 1561
North-West Persian Bronze Blade
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
14 5/8 in. (310 grams, 37.2 cm).
Long blade with a pronounced mid-rib, openwork tubular hilt, crescentic guard.
Provenance
Ex Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s.
Literature
Cf. Christie's, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, part 2, London, 2004, item 36, p.33.
Footnotes
In these daggers, the hilts were cast in the lost wax process, while the blades were cast in a mould. The openwork was cast in the original wax, and after casting was inlaid with a cream-coloured stone, which survives in some examples.
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