GOOD PERSIAN BATTLE AXE

31 ½” length. All steel with mushroom terminal tubular haft (fine patina on uniform light tool finish). Broad crescent for bit well chiseled in foliate panels with gold and silver koftgari decoration. The socket chiseled with birds. The socket, fore spike and flamboyant peen mount all with silver koftgari, stronger on the left side. Superior quality and unusually well preserved for these. A spear of white “manor house paint” suggests early acquisition and a lifetime on the wall of a wealthy, probably English, Estate house, along with the following two examples.