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Lot 15

A Javanese Gold-Mounted Kris
Circa 1900

27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Javanese Gold-Mounted Kris
Circa 1900

With tapering pattern-welded double-edged blade of slightly hollowed flattened diamond section, the gandja encrusted with chased gold foliage along the top, gold mendaq set with rose-cut diamonds between beaded borders, and characteristic carved planar hilt, in its wooden scabbard with characteristic lightly figured wranka and gold pendok, the latter embossed and chased along the outside with pairs of peacocks and foliage highlighted in green enamel (minor losses)
35.5 cm. blade

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Provenance:
Presented by the Sultan of Java to Assistant Resident Van Cornelis Canne of Batavia in about 1900

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