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Lot 186
Three Javanese Kris
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£250 - £350
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The first with straight pattern-welded blade, and carved wooden planar hilt with engraved silver mendaq, in scabbard with highly figured sarongan and white-metal pendoq embossed and chased with flowering foliage along the outside, and with a waved pattern along the inside; the second of similar form, the waved blade chiselled and gilt with a dragon and foliage beneath the gandja, the former with a pearl in its mouth and with its tail forming the dada along each side, the latter chiselled and gilt with foliage, in wooden scabbard with white-metal pendoq (small repair) embossed and chased with foliage inhabited by pairs of birds along the outside; the last with waved pattern-welded blade, and carved mother-of-pearl planar hilt, in wooden scabbard (sarongan chiped) with brass pendoq engraved with foliage along the outside (worn) (3)
32.5 cm. to 37.5 cm. blades
32.5 cm. to 37.5 cm. blades







