Asante Gilt Sword Handle, Ghana

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

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Description

gold leaf, wood
Height 9 1/8 in (23.2 cm)

Provenance

Collected in situ by Charles D. Miller III in the 1970s

Catalogue Note

The porcupine is known to be a fearless warrior, lending the owner of this sword symbolic invulnerability. For two closely related swords previously in the collections of Helena Rubinstein, Paris, and William W. Brill, New York, see Sotheby's, New York, November 17, 2006, lot 48.