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Mongolian Ordos fine bronze knife handle

A fine cast bronze knife handle in the form of a large recumbent deer being attacked by a smaller feline-type animal with its jaws poised at the animal's throat.

The attacking feline forms the butt of the handle and the rump of the deer would have been fitted with a blade which is now lost.

Mongolia, Ordos Culture, mid to late 1st Millennium BC

Intact as shown

Size: 10 x 1.9 cms