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Silver overlaid Chinese hook sword

Typical Chinese hook sword, with seldom-seen fine silver wire overlay.

Price on request
Echizen Kanenori tachi

A fine, Circa 400-year-old blade in 19th-century tachi mountings.

Reserved
Fine mid Qing matchlock musket

With a golden damascened lock of the Indo-Portuguese type.

€20000,-
Japanese battle flag

Resist-dyed cotton in white and indigo, with three fans mon.

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Hawk and pine tsuba

Carved out of copper alloy with details highlighted in gold.

€250,-
Fine pierced nanban tsuba

Very delicate work with carved guardian lions.

€500,-
Small Chinese saber guard

Of pierced iron, elaborately cut with lotus petal border.

€1200,-
Aoi-gata tsuba with foreigners

Unusual tsuba with foreign figures and Chinese auspicious symbols.

€1800,-
Iron nanban ship tsuba

Pierced and chiseled showing an 18th century European vessel.

€475,-
Hirado Kunishige fuchi

One of his classic designs, signed by the maker.

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Unusual nanban tsuba

Very finely carved with designs reminiscent of export wares.

€500,-
17th century Chinese saber guard

With the swirling arabesque motifs that are typical for this period.

€5500,-
Tang dynasty horse head

Mounted on a custom hardwood stand

€1600,-
Qing powder flask

Southern Chinese style with birds in plum branches.

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Japanese lacquered sword stand

With scenes of pine trees and three drawers.

€3200,-
Fine Qing powder flask

Very good example with a finely carved warrior scene.

€3000,-
62 plate kabuto with maedate

Each plate with raised rib, the visor embossed with simulated eyebrows.

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Chinese export lacquer box

A nice example with unusually fine lacquerwork and a monogram in the lid.

€3800,-
Shimazu mon daishō

A pair of daishō with blades forged by the Takada smiths of Bungo in the north of Kyūshū.

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Early Edo samurai armor

Very heavy armor, made for business.

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Mother of pearl inlaid katana kake

In black and gold urushi lacquer, with fine mother-of-pearl inlays with aquatic landscapes on both sides.

€8000,-
Fine Sōshū tantō

A fine tantō forged in the Sōshū tradition with Hon'Ami Koson sayagaki.

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Muramasa masterpiece tantō

A masterpiece by the "cursed" smith, active in the early 16th century.

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Qing imperial jade hilted dagger

An extremely rare dagger, made in the Qing court workshops.

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Ainu dagger

Called kuttom-ushbe in the local language. This one mounted in deer antler mounts.

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Miniature Ainu makiri

Despite its size it is of remarkably fine workmanship.

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A large Qing dàdāo

Large and heavy example with the notable Umlauff provenance.

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Black velvet Beijing hat

The hat traditionally worn by Beijingese gentlemen.

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Southern Chinese military bamboo helmet

The archetype Chinese bamboo helmet that is often seen on early photos.

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Painted conical bamboo helmet

DescriptionAn old Chinese conical helmet of a type that militiamen and foot soldiers wor

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Chinese bamboo helmet

As worn by Southern Chinese military and militiamen.

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Twisted hilt knife

Unusual Chinese knife with a twisted hilt with horn scales.

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Unusual bone and horn trousse

DescriptionAn unusual Chinese trousse set.

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Inlaid lacquer trousse set

Unusual Chinese trousse set with "friends of winter" theme.

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Pair of fine Yunnan knives

Carrying Chinese silver marks on their scabbard mounts.

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Large Qing military sword

Probably of Southern origin, with a straight blade and flaring tip.

€2200,-
Southern Chinese openwork sword guard

In the style of northern work of the 16th and 17th centuries

€3000,-
Assymetric dragon tsuba

Chinese work for the Japanese market.

€800,-
Canton tsuba with 28 "jewels"

Canton work for the Japanese market, with 28 metal balls in separate compartments.

€1500,-
Early Canton tsuba

Made in Canton, China, for the Japanese market.

€500,-
Lobed Canton tsuba

Made in Canton, China, for the Japanese market.

€400,-
Canton tsuba with ship

Made in Canton, China, for the Japanese market.

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Five dragon Canton tsuba

Made in Canton, China, for the Japanese market.

€350,-
Water caltrop Canton tsuba

Made in Canton, China, for the Japanese market.

€400,-
Facing dragon Canton tsuba

Made in Canton, China, for the Japanese market.

€400,-
Pierced silver buckle

Made of solid silver, in Qing court style. With 19th-century European import marks.

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Archaic Chinese shortsword

Probably of Chinese origin, resembling some of the earliest Japanese swords in existence.

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Ming period stirrups

Forged iron, swiveled stirrups with an entirely beaded frame and openwork platforms.

€3000,-
Repeating pellet crossbow stock

A very rare variety of the Chinese repeating crossbow that shoots large pellets.

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Outstanding set of húdiédāo

A set of the rarer long and wide variety with very well-carved hilts and good overall finish.

€2800,-
Qing jiàn in later mounts

Qing period blade in very nicely made early 20th century mounts.

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Southern Chinese húdiédāo set

Wide-bladed pair with eccentric hilt features. Complete with scabbard.

€1600,-