Items | Mandarin Mansion

Sumatran hilted Dutch saber

Using a possibly captured M1898 "klewang" blade.

€800,-
Javanese stiletto dagger

Early piece with an unusual European-style stiletto blade.

€450,-
Polished Sino-Vietnamese dagger

A heavy Sin-Vietnamese fighting knife, with recently polished blade.

€700,-
Broad Vietnamese knife

Broad bladed example with horn hilt and engraved blade.

€900,-
Large Chinese hunting knife

With fine blade in recent polish. With resting scabbard.

€2200,-
Persian wootz double spearhead

Finely crafted wootz blade, and golden inlays at the base.

€2000,-
Persian wootz spearhead

Made using Persian wootz. Pronounced features, chiseled socket.

€1200,-
Studded Eastern Tibetan dagger

Of Kham area regional style, with a grip studded with turquoises and corals.

€3800,-
Goat hilted Khyber sword

With gold plated hilt and pattern welded blade.

€3300,-
Kutch shamshir for Benson

Blade of Persian shamshir form, but of Indian make. Mounts in Kutch style gilt copper.

€5200,-
Central Asian dated kard 1709

With wootz blade inlaid in gold with the name of the maker and the owner.

€2600,-
Boy's brass hilted patá

With charming zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

€2200,-
Khanda with etched blade

A late 19th-century type with an etched blade, simulating patterned steel.

€3500,-
Eastern Tibetan or Yunnan zhibeidao

A simple piece, but with a nicely etched blade typical for the Tibetan / Sichuan borderlands.

€575,-
Tibetan shortsword with pierced mounts

With characteristic pointy hairpin forged blade.

€1550,-
A fine north Indian dagger

Of jambiya form, with pattern welded blade and fine silver scabbard mounts.

€3600,-
Ceremonial peurise teumaga

Cast brass shield of a ceremonial type that was used during sword dances in Aceh.

€300,-
Vietnamese single edged spearhead

Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.

€450,-
Peony karakusa tsuba

Executed in "nanban style" openwork with chiseled and gold-encrusted peonies.

€350,-
Sawasa style iron guard

Unusual piece with depiction of a foreign figure.

€350,-
Peranakan "pending" buckle

Belt buckle from West-Java, worn by Peranakan and wealthy Javanese women.

€250,-
Golden kabuto with iron menpo

A striking battle helmet from the Momoyama period of 1568-1600 A.D.

Reserved
Sabiki or "Wahhabite jambiya"

With a long, sword-like blade characteristic of this type. With original belt.

€500,-
The saber of Manchu Wu Songlu

A standard pattern Qing military saber, but with the rare addition of a label in Manchu.

€1900,-
A large Qing dàdāo

Large and heavy example with the notable Umlauff provenance.

€1600,-
Daruma tsuba

A peculiar tsuba with a depiction of Bodhidharma and two dragon chasing a pearl.

€420,-
Wan-gata tsuba by Kunihiro

Its outer surface is decorated with interlocking swastikas and family crests.

€460,-
Indian madu parrying weapon

Made with two antelope horns and an iron shield.

€800,-
Talwar with wootz hilt and blade

With Persian style blade, showing Indian workmanship.

€3300,-
Very good sikin panjang

Its blade with very fine and complex pamor, brought out by a polish.

€2200,-
A Padri carbine

An unusual variety, shortened to carbine size, with a chicken wing wood stock.

€1300,-
A "Mecca" Jambiya

A style of dagger often associated with the pilgrimage to Mecca.

€650,-
Cast iron compass rose guard

A peculiar cast iron sword guard, probably from the South China Seas area.

€350,-
Afghan sickle, called lohar

Of typical design, forged from one piece of iron, overlaid with brass on one side.

€275,-
Unusual Chinese saber

Built around an imported blade, with a human head shaped pommel.

€800,-
SE Asian dha (carbon 14 dated)

In excavated condition. With XRF and radiocarbon dating results.

€600,-
An old dha (carbon 14 dated)

Found in excavated condition, published with results of c-14 and XRF analysis.

€1100,-
Nanban kogai & kozuka set (futakoromono)

The only set of its type known to me in both private and museum collections.

Price on request
The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha

Collected by a Russian prince from the hill peoples of central Vietnam in 1892.

€1500,-
A Sinhalese kirichchiya

A rare type of Sinhalese dagger with stylized bird hilt and blade with backedge.

€400,-
An excavated dha sword

With heavy blade and copper alloy hilt and lobed guard.

€700,-
Old Madura keris

With carved wooden hilt with a beautiful deep patina. Blade in old finish.

€400,-
Sinhalese coral hilted knife

Also known as piha-kaetta, this is more correctly a pihiya.

€2200,-
Balinese spearhead with scabbard

With fine twist-core pamor and carved wooden scabbard.

€2200,-
Acehnese peudeueng

With Hindu style basket hilt and local blade in European style.

€1100,-
Balinese keris

A classic example with an older blade and timaha wood scabbard.

€350,-
A fine, heavy piha kaetta

Of the chopper variety, with a finely carved ivory hilt.

€1650,-
Sinhalese kirichchiya

With carved horn hilt and characteristic finger guard.

€300,-
An early "piha-kaetta"

Of nice quality, with unusual openwork silver bolster with serapendiya.

€1500,-
Wood hilted dahmjaun

With iron ferrule and copper and silver overlaid blade.

€400,-
Signed nakago kozuka

A by-knife for a Japanese sword, with a hilt shaped like a sword tang.

€450,-
Unusual Indian zulfiqar sword

With bifurcated S-shaped blade in talwar hilt.

€2000,-