A Fine Balinese Ivory Kris Hilt
18th/19th Century
18th/19th Century
Finely carved in the round as a naked seated figure of Raksha with flowing hair, bulging eyes and bared teeth, holding his girdle in his left hand and with his right behind his head, mounted in gold overall embossed and chased with foliage and set with cabochon feldspars and rubies
8.5 cm. high
8.5 cm. high
Sold for
£1,440
inc. premium
Footnotes
- For an unmounted but otherwise very similar example sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms and Armour ..., 22 April 2009, lot 41
Category: Arms and Armour
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