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Lot 93Ф,Y

A North Sumatran (Atjeh) Rentjong, And A Sumartran (Celebes) Kris
Both 19th Century Or Earlier

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A North Sumatran (Atjeh) Rentjong, And A Sumartran (Celebes) Kris
Both 19th Century Or Earlier

The first with pattern-welded slightly recurved single-edged blade with tapering neck of octagonal section, characteristic hilt with swelling ivory grip in two pieces (minor damage) set in a petalled gold basal mount chased with foliate designs, gold pommel of tapering circular section chased with a band of foliage against green and black enamel grounds, and gold filigree pommel-cap, in its lightly figured wooden scabbard carved with foliate designs; the second with tapering double-edged pattern-welded blade, and silver kingfisher hilt with embossed decoration, in original figured wooden scabbard with characteristic lightly carved sarongan (2)
25.5 cm. and 19.5 cm. blades

Footnotes

Provenance:
A.E. Christensen Collection

Literature:
Ada Bruhn Hoffmeyer, Gammelt Jern, E.A. Christensens Våbensamling, 1968, cat. nos. 291 and 299, pp. 269, 286 and 287, fig. 64

For a similar example to the first see Robert Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour..., 2013, p. 123, nos. 296

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