Items | Mandarin Mansion

Hawk and pine tsuba

Carved out of copper alloy with details highlighted in gold.

€250,-
Chinese bamboo helmet

As worn by Southern Chinese military and militiamen.

€300,-
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,-
Antique Chinese spearhead 2

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

€375,-
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,-
Hirado Kunishige fuchi

One of his classic designs, signed by the maker.

Reserved
Daruma tsuba

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

€420,-
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,-
Iron nanban ship tsuba

Pierced and chiseled showing an 18th century European vessel.

€475,-
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,-
Heavy dha

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

€600,-
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,-
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,-
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,-
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 motifs.

€800,-
Batak bullet holder

Carved of amber-colored horn, with an ancestral face with metal inlays.

€850,-
Broad Vietnamese knife

Broad bladed example with horn hilt and engraved blade.

€900,-
Later South Nias belatu

Nice and complete example with talisman basket. Probably 20th century.

€900,-
A large Vietnamese falchion

Description A rather unusual Vietnamese falchion, by lack of a better n

€1100,-
Mindan dha

Fine silver overlaid dha made in Mindan village, south of Mandalay, gained fame in the 19th century.

€1200,-
Small Chinese saber guard

Of pierced iron, elaborately cut with lotus petal border.

€1200,-
A Sumbawa Kabeala

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

€1250,-
Unusual Vietnamese trường đao

With forward swept iron guard and swollen grip.

€1300,-
Three wise monkeys tsuba

Japanese sword guard depicting three wise monkeys conveying the message see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

€1500,-
Canton tsuba with 28 "jewels"

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

€1500,-
Qing openwork saber guard

A very rare Chinese saber guard dating from the height of the Qing dynasty.

€1500,-
Nyamba keris hilt with seal

Rare old keris handle made into a European wax seal.

€1500,-
Southern Chinese húdiédāo set

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

€1600,-
Tang dynasty horse head

Mounted on a custom hardwood stand

€1600,-
European sword blade keris

In the style of a Malay keris panjang.

€1750,-
Balinese spearhead with scabbard

With fine twist-core pamor and carved wooden scabbard.

€1800,-
The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha

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

€1800,-
Yagami school nanban tsuba

A masterpiece of the genre. The Yagami school were excellent carvers of iron.

Reserved
Aoi-gata tsuba with foreigners

Unusual tsuba with foreign figures and Chinese auspicious symbols.

€1800,-
The saber of Manchu Wu Songlu

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

€1900,-
Bali straight keris

With fine flaming pamor blade and notched "cekah redut" hilt.

€2000,-
Mindan Ramayana dha

Fine Mindan dha with a scene from the Ramayana on its blade.

€2000,-
South Kalimantan parang

Of typical South Borneo workmanship, but formed like a mandau from Kutai.

€2000,-