Items | Mandarin Mansion

Early chilanum hilt

An old bronze hilt in the shape of chilanum hilts.

€450,-
Simple hooded katar

Of a type that is strongly associated with the Vijayanagara empire.

€500,-
A fine curved Deccan katar

With beautifully shaped blade and fine, elaborately chiseled hilt.

€4000,-
A curved Deccan katar

With elaborately pierced and chiseled hilt.

€1900,-
A Deccan chilanum

With wootz blade, and silver overlaid hilt that was finished with fire-gilding.

€2300,-
Katar with complex ribbed blade

A substantial example, of elegant form, with a complex grooved blade.

Reserved
Box of Javanese arrows

Used in a target archery sport that was originally practiced in the Keraton.

€1200,-
A Sinhalese knife

Rarely seen today, a commoner's example with carved, bone hilt.

€300,-
A fine Sinhalese bow

Made in the Four Workshops of the King of Kandy.

€3300,-
Three Indian anti-siege arrows

Named so due to their extremely heavy, bullet-shaped arrowheads.

Reserved
Saber of Bhima Nayak

A south Indian saber carrying the name "Sri Bhima Nayak".

€1000,-
Early Tibetan or Mongolian quiver

A very rare example of a type of all-leather tube quiver that was used by Mongols and Tibetans of

€4000,-
Gold mounted presentation khukurī

Thought to have been presented by the Royal House of Nepal.

€3000,-
Ceremonial yem nguyệt đao

Modeled after the Chinese "guan dao", made of lacquered wood.

€550,-
A katar from Sindh

With markings suggesting it was a wedding gift, presented in 1832.

€6200,-
Qing military rank badge

Depicting the golden cat, representing the 6th military rank.

€800,-
Fine Bhutanese dagger

With heavy silver mounts, pierced and chiseled.

€3000,-
Fine Chinese Shan dha

Entirely clad in silver and with a differentially heat treated blade.

€2500,-
A katar from Bundi

The style typical for royal katar made under Maharao Ram Singh.

Reserved
Large wootz talwar

The hilt inlaid with silver, once blued for added contrast.

€2600,-
Golden damascened boy's katar

A rare example with pattern welded blade, retaining its original scabbard.

€1500,-
Bhutanese dagger

With narrow blade and all brass mounts.

€300,-
Tibetan shortsword

With elaborately pierced and chased silver scabbard.

€2800,-
Sikkim "ban" sword

With finer forge folded blade than most of its type.

€800,-
Mamluk style sword in talwar hilt

Chiseled with a rare type of decor on the base, and with two Islamic inscriptions.

€6500,-
Chinese trousse in Mongolian style

With heavy pierced silver mounts in with archaic dragon designs.

€1200,-
"South China Sea Guard"

Most likely used by the multi-cultural crews of pirate fleets that roamed the South China seas.

€300,-
Fine Algerian yataghan

An exceptionally large example with silver-clad scabbard.

€7500,-
All wootz kard dagger

With a hidden compartment for a small utility knife.

€2500,-
Kiyou-Toujin Tsuba

A Japanese style sword guard made in 17th century Nagasaki Chinatown.

€1500,-
A Sumbawa Kabeala

With broad silver-clad scabbard, worked entirely in repousse.

€1250,-
Very fine ceremonial gươm

An outstanding example with very fine silver and moth-of-pearl work.

€3400,-
Fine Burmese dha hmyaung

With intricately carved ivory hilt depicting a demon on a horse.

€1800,-
Boy's brass hilted patá

With charming zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

€2400,-
Rare Jinchuan quiver

With a connection to local royalty in Jinchuan, Sichuan province.

Reserved
North Indian katar with tools

With a fine wootz blade with a pronounced center ridge.

€3700,-
Burmese double knives

A rare set of twin knives in a single scabbard.

€750,-
Ivory hilted dha

An earlier example with an iconographic hilt.

€1650,-
Tibetan or Mongolian quiver

Of an early type with dramatic widened shape.

€3800,-
Matched Vietnamese kiếm pair

With carved stone handles and superb workmanship in silver and mother-of-pearl.

€7800,-
A large pihiya kättha

A massive example weighing just over 800 grams. With scabbard.

€2500,-
Sinhalese kasthāné dated 1776

A very fine specimen, complete with ruby-set scabbard.

€9500,-
Sumatran keris panjang

A type of long keris often described as "execution keris".

€600,-
Triple golden crown sikin

A sikin panjang with a triple golden crown.

€1100,-
Asian export sword guard

An interesting pierced iron Asian export sword guard that is part of a small group of guards that

€1200,-
Iron ship sword guard

A chiseled iron sword guard depicting a Dutch ship with a figure on its stern.

€650,-
Heavy Rajput katar

A heavy Indian katar with substantial armor piercing blade.

€1500,-
Chilanum dagger

Somewhat worn but once very high-quality, with great sculptural qualities and remains of silver "true inlay".

€1500,-
Fuchi kashira by Hisayuki

A beautiful signed Japanese ferrule and pommel plate.

€750,-
Tibetan style pierced saddle plate

With designs of four dragons in scrollwork around a "wish-granting-jewel"

€3500,-
A very good Afghan pulouar

With wootz handle with fine pierced pommel dome.

€3500,-
Chinese Shan presentation dha

Presented by the local Dai nobility to a British customs officer in 1936.

€2800,-