A Tipu sultan bubri-form axe-head with tiger’s head, Mysore, late 18th centuryThe steel blade
A Tipu sultan bubri-form axe-head with tiger’s head, Mysore, late 18th centuryThe steel blade of gently curving form, engraved with foliate motifs near shoulder with remnants of gilding, the mount composed of two tiger-heads biting either side of the blade with a cylindrical fitting chiselled with a bubri design 30cm. length. -- source link
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