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~ LUXURIOUS CEREMONIAL DAGGER The handle, carved from walrus…
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~ LUXURIOUS CEREMONIAL DAGGER The handle, carved from walrus…
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,500 - €3,500
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Description
~ LUXURIOUS CEREMONIAL DAGGER
The handle, carved from walrus ivory, is decorated with two men clutching the olive-shaped pommel, vine leaves, interlaced patterns and female busts. The tang is carved with a rudentate pattern imitating a frieze, and features chiselled iron studs and a ferrule. Chiselled iron guard with a body knot, featuring a floral rosette design, from which emerge two flat, inverted quillons with scrollwork motifs. Straight, double-edged blade with a flat back, chiselled along one-third of its length with a floral motif.
Probably a 17th-century German piece.
Total length: 51 cm.
Gross weight: 229 g.
Expert: Alban Degrave
Odobenus rosmarus (III/B).
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