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Lot 553
A RARE SWORD AND SCABBARD
Estimated Value:
1.200 € - 1.800 €
Result:
incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Tibet, 15th/ 16th cent.L. 98 cm
The sword is consisting of an iron blade stuck into a metal pommel, the wood hilt topped with an iron finial wrought with scrolling tendrils at the sides and a flower-head at its top, the wood scabbard embellished with perhaps ray or shark skin, the whole fastened with copper strips and further ornamented to its front with several ajour plaques of a scrolling tendril design
From an old private collection in Southern Germany
Compare a similar sword and scabbard stored in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum London, inv. IM.290-1907) and published by Donald J. LaRocca 'Warriors of the Himalayas - Redicovering The Arms and Armor of Tibet', Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006, n. 59, p. 155 - Wear, minor damages due to age and losses to scabbard
