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A Fine Balinese KrisLate 19th/Early 20th Century
30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,750 inc. premium
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Late 19th/Early 20th Century
Late 19th/Early 20th Century
With earlier tapering double-edged blade of flattened oval section pattern-welded with a fine black and silver pamur twist pattern, characteristic integral gandja pierced with a hooked scroll at the front and with a series of hooked projections at the rear, hilt comprising small gilt mendaq set with cabochon crystals (one missing), a larger compressed gold mount above with a row of alternate cabochon rubies and green sapphires in cushion-shaped settings between groups of gold pellets, and ivory grip carved in the round as a seated figure of Bayu mounted in gold sheet embossed with foliate scrollwork and set with cabochon rubies and green sapphires, in original wood-lined scabbard with large ivory sarongan carved in relief along each side with a differing scene from Balinese Hinduism against a ground of foliate scrollwork, silver pendaq embossed with a panel of symmetrical foliage at the top on the back involving a demon's mask, the front veneered with six long pierced bone panels carved with foliage and guilloche, and secured by three gold mounts each embossed with foliate scrollwork, the one at the top centred on a Bayu mask
45 cm. blade
45 cm. blade
Footnotes
For a similar kris with related blade in the Natural Museum of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, see Robert Hales, Islamic And Oriental Arms And Armour..., 2013, p. 125, fig. 307








