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Lot 189
Two Javanese Kris, And A Balinese Kris
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £900 inc. premium
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The first with waved pattern-welded blade with double fuller forming a medial ridge on each side of the forte, the forte and gandja decorated with chiselled and gilt foliage, large carved elephant's tooth planar hilt, and small gilt mendaq set with cabochon rubies, in red painted wooden scabbard decorated with foliage in gilt and polychrome over the sarongan and at the chape, the former with a bull on one side, and the head of Raksha and a sun on the other; the second with straight pattern-welded blade, and carved elephant's tooth planar hilt, in wood-lined scabbard with elephant's tooth sarongan and brass pendoq embossed and chased with foliage inhabited by pairs of birds along the outside; the last with waved pattern-welded blade, bone hilt carved as a naked male and female figure in an embrace, and gilt mendaq set with red and blue glass, in scabbard with ivory sarongan, and brass pendoq embossed with foliage (3)
47.2 cm., 33.4 cm. and 36.3 cm. blades
47.2 cm., 33.4 cm. and 36.3 cm. blades







