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A Balinese Kris19th Century
30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £812.50 inc. premium
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A Balinese Kris
19th Century
19th Century
With tapering double-edged seven lok pattern-welded blade of flattened diamond section, cut with a double fuller on each side of the forte forming a medial ridge, and chiselled with a winged naga with open mouth beneath the gandja, filigree mendak set with imitation cabochon rubies, and figured wooden hilt bound with twisted hair, the pommel carved as a flower-head, in its figured wooden scabbard with characteristic sarongan and copper pendok, the latter embossed with bands of flower-heads centred on a knotted design
41.3 cm. blade
41.3 cm. blade








