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A Javanese Kris
20 April 2011, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £576 inc. premium
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With waved pattern-welded blade, the cutting-edge over half its length on each side pierced and chiselled with encrusted gold foliage, the forte pierced and chiselled with a gold-encrusted dragon on one side, its gold-encrusted tail forming the dada along each side, the gandja chiselled with encrusted gold foliage inhabited by two chased gold animals on top, gold filigree mendaq, and carved planar hilt, in its wooden scabbard with figured sarongan (pendoq and some gold missing)
35.3 cm. blade
35.3 cm. blade








