Items | Mandarin Mansion

Sumatran hilted Dutch saber

Using a possibly captured M1898 "klewang" blade.

€800,-
Assymetric dragon tsuba

Chinese work for the Japanese market.

€800,-
Dayak bamboo container

Carved with typically Dayak aso "dog dragon" motifs.

€800,-
Chinese crescent spearhead

A robust and heavy example, crafted with care.

€750,-
Unusual Chinese saber

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

€750,-
An excavated dha sword

With heavy blade and copper alloy hilt and lobed guard.

€700,-
Batad Ifugao hinālung

Rare double-edged shortsword of the Ifugao of northern Luzon.

€700,-
SE Asian dha with "Musashi tsuba"

In excavated condition, with copper alloy hilt.

€650,-
Burmese silver manuscript holder

For holding and protecting important documents.

€650,-
Heavy dha

The thick and heavy blade is marked with a script that has yet to be identified.

€600,-
Early Canton tsuba

Made in Canton, China, for the Japanese market.

€500,-
Unusual nanban tsuba

Very finely carved with designs reminiscent of export wares.

€500,-
Fine pierced nanban tsuba

Very delicate work with carved guardian lions.

€500,-
Iron nanban ship tsuba

Pierced and chiseled showing an 18th century European vessel.

€475,-
A plain dha

Of a type likely produced by the Shan people and traded widely in the region.

€450,-
Chinese village dāo

A simple utilitarian weapon, probably made for rural martial artists or militia.

€450,-
Unusual Indonesian carved grip

Made of carved wood with metal inlays for eyes and mouth.

€450,-
Daruma tsuba

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

€420,-
Ceremonial arrowhead

Made of iron, shaped as a gourd, with silver overlay.

€400,-
Facing dragon Canton tsuba

Made in Canton, China, for the Japanese market.

€400,-
Water caltrop Canton tsuba

Made in Canton, China, for the Japanese market.

€400,-
Lobed Canton tsuba

Made in Canton, China, for the Japanese market.

€400,-
Signed nakago kozuka

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

€400,-
Ramree veteran khukurī

Signed: Ricky Milnes, India 44, Burma 44, Ramree 45.

€400,-
Indian betel box

Made of brass and bronze, now deeply patinated.

€400,-
Hirado Kunishige fuchi

One of his classic designs, signed by the maker.

Reserved
Antique Chinese spearhead 2

Of classic shape, with a leaf-shaped blade on a socket, connected by a cast bronze base.

€375,-
Five dragon Canton tsuba

Made in Canton, China, for the Japanese market.

€350,-
Peony karakusa tsuba

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

€350,-
Sinhalese kirichchiya

With carved horn hilt and characteristic finger guard.

€300,-
Hawk and pine tsuba

Carved out of copper alloy with details highlighted in gold.

€250,-
A Sinhalese knife

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

€200,-