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LOT 0264
North-West Persian Bronze Short Sword with Mushroom Pommel
LATE 2ND-EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
23 in. (613 grams, 58.5 cm).
The hilt with conical openwork hollow-cast pommel, grip decorated with horizontal grooves and twisted zig-zag pattern, crescentic guard decorated with waves, long blade with ridged mid-grip.
Provenance
Kuizenga collection, the Netherlands, acquired in Utrecht 21 December 1977.
with Bonhams, London, 7 December 2023, no.154.
Literature
See a similar sword in Christie's, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, part 1, London, 2002, item 24, p.27.
Footnotes
This category of swords has been classified by Khorasani as 'swords with a mushroom pommel' and are usually characterised by a solid-cast hilt with a penannular guard, a ribbed or variously decorated grip and the conical hollow-cast mushroom pommel. Usually the blade is multi-fullered and tapers to a sharp tip. Moorey considers them to be from the end of the 2nd millennium B.C.
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LOT 0264
North-West Persian Bronze Short Sword with Mushroom Pommel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,600
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